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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 ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Learning Men Teaching
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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Artist Creative Spiritual
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
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
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
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
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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Generation Men Our Prayer
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Earth Mans Meaning Search
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Intimate Partners Solliloquies
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
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
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive

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