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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEach 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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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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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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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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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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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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