Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMost important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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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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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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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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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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