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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
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
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
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
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Happiness
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find 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
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
Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Envy Past Possibility Reality Suffering
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
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.
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Become Existence Men Token
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Believe Liberty Mean

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