The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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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. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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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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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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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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