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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

Viktor E. Frankl

Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Meaning Men Search
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.
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Attitude Learning Life
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
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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Consequences Goal Psychology Unintended
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
Most 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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Challenges Country Fate Inspirational People Victim
It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Meaningful Spiritual Taken
Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Encounters Existential Human Long
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
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
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
Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Envy Past Possibility Reality Suffering

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

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