The salvation of man is through love and in love.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLA man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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