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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

Viktor E. Frankl

What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Attitude Learning Life
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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Artist Creative Spiritual
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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Detect Gains Men Pain
View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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Happiness Spiritual Views
Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Condition Confront Decision Faces Giving
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Carrying Purpose Woe
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Believe Liberty Mean
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
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
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Life Men Responsibility
When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Believe Greatest Quests Task Taught
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Sides

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