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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

The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men
But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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Frank Image Mind Real Wife
The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Meaningful Purposeful Something Struggle
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
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
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Hands Long Sleep
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Life Spark Unique Web
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last 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
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Earth Mans Meaning Search
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
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
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Despair Disease Mean Men

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