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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

Despair is suffering without meaning.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Despair Existential Suffering
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Carrying Purpose Woe
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Condition Confront Decision Faces Giving
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Meaningful Purposeful Something Struggle
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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Beautiful Death Symphony
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
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Being Happy Inspirational Leadership
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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Love Men Secret
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
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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Meaning Men Search World
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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Attitude Learning Life
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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Attitude Grateful Gratitude

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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