What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThere are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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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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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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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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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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