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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

The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Opportunity Suffering Unhappy
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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Famous Fire Inspirational Strong
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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Love Men Secret
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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Honesty Humility Men
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Believe Liberty Mean
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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Change Happiness Life
The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
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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Frank Image Mind Real Wife
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
A 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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Despair Disease Mean Men
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Country Lectures Ministry Ultimately
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Life Meaning Men Tasks
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
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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Firsts Machine Patient

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