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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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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 no...
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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...
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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 quanti...
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Responsibility Gives Meaning
Here’s another way to look at this. Maybe it is not you who is asking the question, maybe it is life that is asking you "What sort of meaning are you going to give this life."
And You will not find the answer in some abstract philosophy because the meaning of life is not so...
“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
VIKTOR FRANKL
Ignore Your Stuff
Consider your "stuff" as individual happenings that are best treated individually. Ignore all the others while you target to get started on at least one of those To-Do tasks.
The distinction between stuff and things is important. Once you’re treating each obligation as separate from the w...
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