The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIn some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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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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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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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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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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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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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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