Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
VIKTOR E. FRANKLOne 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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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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.
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