A human being is a deciding being.
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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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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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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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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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