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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one"s attitudes." | |
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Found in the topic Freedom.
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| "Logotherapy ... considers man as a being whose main concern consists
in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere
gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts." | |
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Found in the topic Meaning.
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| "I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still
know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his
beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express
himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in
enduring his sufferings in the right way ? an honorable way ? in such a
position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of
his beloved, achieve fulfillment." | |
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Found in the topic Suffer.
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| "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what
life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life,
and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by
life ? daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and
meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately
means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems
and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each
individual." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "We who lived in concentration camps can remember those who walked
through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that
everything can be taken from a person but 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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Found in the topic Attitude.
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| "A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a
human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work,
will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his
existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."" | |
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Found in the topic Why.
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| "Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and
America: Don"t aim at success ? the more you aim at it and make it a
target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness,
cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended
side effect of one"s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself
or as the by-product of one"s surrender to a person other than oneself.
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it
happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your
conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of
your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run ? in the
long-run, I say! ? success will follow you precisely because you had
forgotten to think about it." | |
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Found in the topic Aim.
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| "Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost
core of his personality." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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