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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

Viktor E. Frankl

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
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
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
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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Bears Men Neurology
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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Life Men Responsibility
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
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
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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Neurosis People Sunday
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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Attitude Gratitude Lasts
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive

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