In a Brown Study

My Public Notebook

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"That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a meaning." - Viktor Frankl

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"suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice." - Viktor Frankl

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"As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of the meaning of life may actually be reversed. Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. Thus, logotherapy sees in responsibleness the very essence of human existence." - Viktor Frankl

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"During this psychological phase one observed that people with natures of a more primitive kind could not escape the inɻuences of the brutality which had surrounded them in camp life. Now, being free, they thought they could use their freedom licentiously and ruthlessly. The only thing that had changed for them was that they were now the oppressors instead of the oppressed." - Viktor Frankl

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“Sunday neurosis,” that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest." - Viktor Frankl

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“We slough off the responsibility to create ourselves by shrugging and claiming, “That’s just the way I am.”

― Daniel Klein

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“Take wrong turns, talk to strangers, open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing, do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out.”

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"The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. Now we can understand Schopenhauer when he said that mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom." - Viktor Frankl

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“Keep the hell out of my body bag.” - Kilgore Trout

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“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.”― Oliver Burkeman

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“Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.”― Oliver Burkeman

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“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

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If the world spun fast enough could penguins fly?

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“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.” ― Albert Camus

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“Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can only be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, not stared at directly.”― Oliver Burkeman

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“the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.”― Leo Tolstoy