Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
VIKTOR FRANKLMan can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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There 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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Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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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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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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