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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLUltimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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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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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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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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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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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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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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