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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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.
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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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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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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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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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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its 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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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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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There 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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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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