Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEverything 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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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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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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