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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.

Viktor E. Frankl

No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Afford Lying Men Opportunity Situation
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Different Life Suffering
This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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Kind Spirit Suffering
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
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
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Deeds Done Forget Good
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Courage Grief Men
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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Able Goal Men
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Neurosis People Sunday
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Attitude Grateful Gratitude

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