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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.

Viktor E. Frankl

You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Country Lectures Ministry Ultimately
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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Firsts Machine Patient
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Intimate Partners Solliloquies
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Future Looking Meaning Men Search
As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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Bears Men Neurology
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
…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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Answers Meditation Thinking
The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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Attitude Gratitude Lasts
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Fate Inspirational Men

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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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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