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.
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Viktor E. Frankl
The most-loved lines from Viktor E. Frankl, drawn from 1 book in the library.
Lines labelled “HourLife takeaway” are our wording of the book’s ideas and may paraphrase it. Only lines in quotation marks are the author’s own words, with where they appear. Check the book for exact wording before you quote it. Spot an error?
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a ‘secondary rationalization’ of instinctual drives.
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering.
Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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