Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThen I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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It is always important to have something yet to do in 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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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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Man’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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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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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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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