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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

Viktor E. Frankl

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Chance Life Second Time
View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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Frame May Spiritual Views
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Hands Long Sleep
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
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
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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Despite Humans Situation
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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Death Fate Life Meaning Suffering
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
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
But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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Frank Image Mind Real Wife
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
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Intimate Partners Solliloquies
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

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