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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Viktor E. Frankl

You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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Children Clothes Wife
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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Death Fate Life Meaning Suffering
As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Mean People Struggle
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
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
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
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
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Consequences Goal Psychology Unintended
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Future Past Today Undermine
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
The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Actualization Causes Giving Self
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive

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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