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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
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
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Meaningful Spiritual Taken
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
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Sides
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
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 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
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
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
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Challenges Life Meaning Men
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search

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