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Understand the meaning in suffering
- To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
- Life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones.
- A man’s suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber
- Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete
- This infinite meaning of life includes suffering and dying, privation and death.
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Love and Humour
- Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
- Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance
- Man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
- Humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds
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Achieving Success and freedom
- Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
- Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way
- It is this spiritual freedom—which cannot be taken away—that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Live
- Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
- “Life” does not mean something vague, but something very real and concrete, just as life’s tasks are also very real and concrete. They form man’s destiny, which is different and unique for each individual
- Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.
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