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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Viktor E. Frankl

The salvation of man is through love and in love.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Life Love Men
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
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
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
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
As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Mean People Struggle
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
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Away Choose One Thing Way
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
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
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
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
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Meaning Men Search
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive

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