The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHuman kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Man’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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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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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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