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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

Viktor E. Frankl

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 more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Actualization Causes Giving Self
Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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Meaning Men Search World
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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Neurosis People Sunday
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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Country Lectures Ministry Ultimately
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Despair Disease Mean Men
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
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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Bears Men Neurology
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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Art Develop Humorous Light
If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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Becoming Men Should
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
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
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
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
…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
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Above Altering Known Life Rise Well

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