Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't
Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.
To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features.
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