View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhen we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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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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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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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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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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