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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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