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Despair is suffering without meaning.

Viktor E. Frankl

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Learning Men Teaching
View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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Happiness Spiritual Views
As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Mean People Struggle
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
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Believe Greatest Quests Task Taught
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
Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Condemn Groups Kindness
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Consequences Goal Psychology Unintended
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
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
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
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
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
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Fate Inspirational Men
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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Despite Humans Situation
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men

Despair is suffering without meaning.

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