Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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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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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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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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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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