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.
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 the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.
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.
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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.
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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.
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.
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality
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.
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.
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.
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
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