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A human being is a deciding being.

Viktor E. Frankl

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Believe Greatest Quests Task Taught
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Earth Mans Meaning Search
…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
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
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
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Life Meaning Men Tasks
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
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
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Answers Life Men
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 inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Effort Men Spiritual
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

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