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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan’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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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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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