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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.

Viktor E. Frankl

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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Attitude Circumstances Lasts
The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Actualization Causes Giving Self
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Future Past Today Undermine
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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Dignity May Men Mentality Spiritual
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
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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Fate Giving Meaningful
The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
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
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Believe Greatest Quests Task Taught
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
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
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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Away Choose One Thing Way
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Fate Inspirational Men

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