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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
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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Attitude Circumstances Lasts
A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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Able Goal Men
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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Generation Men Our Prayer
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Answers Life Men
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
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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Becoming Men Should
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Being Happy Inspirational Leadership
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
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Above Altering Known Life Rise Well
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men

Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

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