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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

Viktor E. Frankl

One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Consequences Goal Psychology Unintended
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Existential Humanity Psychotherapy
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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Believe Greatest Quests Task Taught
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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Attitude Grateful Gratitude
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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Attitude Circumstances Lasts
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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Life Men Responsibility
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man 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
It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Meaningful Spiritual Taken
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
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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Attitude Learning Life

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

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