Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
VIKTOR FRANKLEverything 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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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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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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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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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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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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