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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.

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
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
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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Despite Humans Situation
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Existence Men Moments
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
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
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
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
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Hands Long Sleep
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Life Spark Unique Web

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