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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

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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Kind Spirit Suffering
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
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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Dignity May Men Mentality Spiritual
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
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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Attitude Grateful Gratitude
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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Firsts Machine Patient
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
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Honesty Humility Men
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two

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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