When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhen we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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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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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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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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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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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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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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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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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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