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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

Viktor E. Frankl

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Become Existence Men Token
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
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
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
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’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
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
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
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
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
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
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Art Develop Humorous Light
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
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
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
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

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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