Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIn some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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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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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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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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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.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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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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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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