Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNo 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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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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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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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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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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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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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