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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

Viktor 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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Choose Respond
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Concern Disease Existence Man Mental Worth
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Abnormal Behavior Normal Reaction Situation
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Attitude Choose Freedom
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Life Man Search
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Flourish Health Human Key Meaning Mental
A human being is a deciding being.
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Decision Human Being One Liner
Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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Aim Business Inspirational Success Target
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Cease Finding Moments Sacrifice Suffering
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Acknowledgement Belief Believe Conscience Obey Tolerance
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Beloved Importance Love Person Physical Spiritual
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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Crisis Depend Finding Life Meaning People Seek Strength Survival Time
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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Deep Expectation Inspirational Life
Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Fight Humor Preservation Soul Weapon
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Determination Each Other Human Being Ultimate
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Attitude Choose Circumstance Freedom Human Man

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