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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor E. Frankl

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Learning Men Teaching
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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Death Fate Life Meaning Suffering
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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Children Clothes Wife
It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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Firsts Machine Patient
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Consequences Goal Psychology Unintended
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Liberty Responsibility West
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Happiness
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Future Looking Meaning Men Search
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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Opportunity Suffering Unhappy
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
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Chance Life Second Time
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued

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