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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.

Viktor E. Frankl

You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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Children Clothes Wife
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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Art Develop Humorous Light
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Future Past Today Undermine
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Liberty Responsibility West
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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Frame May Spiritual Views
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Bears Men Philosophers
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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Being Happy Inspirational Leadership
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Learning Men Teaching
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.

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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.

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