I DEMAND MORE OF MYSELF THAT ANYONE ELSE COULD EVER EXPECT!!

I DEMAND MORE OF MYSELF THAT ANYONE ELSE COULD EVER EXPECT!!

Find something worth dying for and then live for it!

Raise your standard!

Give something back by becoming more !!!!

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is a highly recommended book.

Here are some quotes I chose that could not have been written better:

• A man's character became involved to the point that he was caught in a mental turmoil which threatened all the values he held and threw them into doubt. Under the influence of a world which no longer recognized the value of human life and human dignity, which had robbed man of his will and had made him an object to be exterminated (having planned, however, to make full use of him first—to the last ounce of his physical resources)— under this influence the personal ego finally suffered a loss of values. If the man in the concentration camp did not struggle against this in a last effort to save his self-respect, he lost the feeling of being an individual, a being with a mind, with inner freedom and personal value. He thought of himself then as only a part of an enormous mass of people; his existence descended to the level of animal life.

• 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. 
  
  
  
  

• Dostoevsky said once, "There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of
  my sufferings." These words frequently came to my mind after I became acquainted with those
  martyrs whose behaviour in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last
  inner freedom cannot be lost. It can be said that they were worthy of their sufferings; the way they
  bore their suffering was a genuine inner achievement. It is this spiritual freedom— which cannot be
  taken away—that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

• An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work,
  while a passive life of enjoyment affords him the opportunity to obtain fulfilment in experiencing
  beauty, art, or nature. But there is also purpose in that life which is almost barren of both creation
  and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behaviour: namely, in man's
  attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces. A creative life and a life of
  enjoyment are banned to him. But not only creativeness and enjoyment are meaningful. 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. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
  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. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the
  chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values
  that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or
  not.