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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. Frankl

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Bears Men Philosophers
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Neurosis People Sunday
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Existence Men Moments
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
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Carrying Purpose Woe
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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Beautiful Death Symphony
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
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
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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Change Happiness Life
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 meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search

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.

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