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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLife requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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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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.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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