We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhen we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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