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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.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Future Looking Meaning Men Search
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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Encounters Existentialism Suffering
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
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
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
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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Beautiful Death Symphony
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Liberty Responsibility West
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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Artist Creative Spiritual
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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Life Men Responsibility
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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Happiness Spiritual Views
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Neurosis People Sunday
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
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
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Challenges Country Fate Inspirational People Victim
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
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
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
When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men

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