A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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