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.
VIKTOR FRANKLEven when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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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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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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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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