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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. And there were always choices to make.
bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.
Some details of a particular man’s inner greatness may have come to one’s mind,
Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man—his courage and hope, or lack of them—and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect.
“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,”
it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as much as it does on human love.
He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
(That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)
commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.
25 percent showed a more-or-less marked degree of existential vacuum.
changing his attitude toward his unalterable fate inasmuch as from that time on he could at least see a meaning in his suffering.
But let me make it perfectly clear that in no way is suffering necessary to find meaning.
To suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
Paradoxical intention
“George, you must realize that the world is a joke. There is no justice, everything is random. Only when you realize this will you understand how silly it is to take yourself seriously.
