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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.

Viktor E. Frankl

When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments
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
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
If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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Becoming Men Should
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Neurosis People Sunday
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
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
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
…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
View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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Happiness Spiritual Views
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
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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Limits Men Self Ultimately
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
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
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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Frank Image Mind Real Wife

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