

“The truth — that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.”
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
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“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
verified“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. So, let us be alert — alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1984
verified“The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
verified“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
verified“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
verified“If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
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“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
This Is My Story · 1937
verified“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Strength to Love · 1963
verified“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
Nelson Mandela
Long Walk to Freedom · 1995
verified“On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man · 1877
verified“Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov · 1879
verified“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace · 1869
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