No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIt is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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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.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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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. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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 of it.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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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 attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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