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Despair is suffering without meaning.

Viktor E. Frankl

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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Limits Men Self Ultimately
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Fate Inspirational Men
There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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Decent Incident Men Race Two
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Become Existence Men Token
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
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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Honesty Humility Men
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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Detect Gains Men Pain
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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Encounters Existentialism Suffering
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
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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Frame May Spiritual Views
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Life Meaning Men Tasks
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
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Challenges Life Meaning Men

Despair is suffering without meaning.

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