What is to give light must endure burning.
VIKTOR FRANKLEverything 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.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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 not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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