One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThere 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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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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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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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 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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Then 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.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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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.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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