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. FRANKLThe salvation of man is through love and in love.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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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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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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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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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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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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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.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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