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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

Viktor E. Frankl

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Away Choose One Thing Way
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Answers Life Men
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Meaning Men Search
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Consequences Goal Psychology Unintended
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Courage Grief Men
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Life Meaning Men Tasks
When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments
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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Honesty Humility Men
The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
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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Condition Confront Decision Faces Giving
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Encounters Existential Human Long
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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Long Running Thinking
Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Condemn Groups Kindness

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