Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEverywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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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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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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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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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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