A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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 last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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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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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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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