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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the...

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A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

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Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative".

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I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour".

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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. Yet it is possible to practice the art of living even in a concentration camp, although suffering is omni...

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/.../, for unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic.

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The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way un which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity -even under the most difficult circumstances- to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dign...

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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

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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 opportunit...

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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

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A human being is a deciding being.

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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man b...

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