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"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances."
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"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."

"A healthy attitude is contagious, let others catch it."

"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
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"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

"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."

"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."

"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."

"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 dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself."

"The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times. Suffering in and of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it."
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