You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan 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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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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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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