Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEach 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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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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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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 never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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