The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
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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.Viktor E. Frankl
What is to give light must endure burning.
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Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.
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For the first time in my life, I was able to understand the words, 'The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.'
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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.
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