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Man's Search for Meaning byVictor Frankl “Those
who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.” “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
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.” “Love is the only way to grasp another human being in
the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he
loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees
that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the
loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of
what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.” “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 personal dedication to
a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must
happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your
conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in
the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about
it”
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"....they're
conducting an experiment to try to teach animals to grasp the concept of extinction. And then he says — and this is
a priceless sentence — 'We're tired of having to bail out endangered species. It's high-time they learned
individual responsibility.' ... Now how could you not just embrace a book and a writer who can come up with a sentence
like that?" Understories by Tim Horvath
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