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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

Viktor E. Frankl

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Bears Men Philosophers
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
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
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
This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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Kind Spirit Suffering
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
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Fear Sacrifice Suffering
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Giving Successful Suffering
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Deeds Done Forget Good
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
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
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
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
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
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

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