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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Mean People Struggle
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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Condition Confront Decision Faces Giving
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Fate Inspirational Men
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Fear Sacrifice Suffering
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Fate Inspirational Men
It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Meaningful Spiritual Taken
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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Country Lectures Ministry Ultimately
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
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
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
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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Dignity May Men Mentality Spiritual
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
When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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Determined Giving Men

There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.

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