Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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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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