A human being is a deciding being.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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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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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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