One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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