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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

Viktor E. Frankl

…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.
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Answers Meditation Thinking
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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Limits Men Self Ultimately
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Effort Men Spiritual
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Challenges Life Meaning Men
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Different Life Suffering
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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Giving Successful Suffering
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Meaningful Spiritual Taken
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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Generation Men Our Prayer
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Intimate Partners Solliloquies
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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Away Choose One Thing Way
One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Fate Giving Meaningful
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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Afford Lying Men Opportunity Situation
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search

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