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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.

Viktor E. Frankl

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
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
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Sides
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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Being Happy Inspirational Leadership
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Country Lectures Ministry Ultimately
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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Determined Giving Men
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Meaning Men Search
Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Learning Men Teaching
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Opportunity Suffering Unhappy
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Despair Disease Mean Men

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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