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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.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
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
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Alive Deepest Meaning Self Spiritual
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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Becoming Men Should
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Opportunity Suffering Unhappy
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
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
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Actualization Causes Giving Self
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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Despair Existential Suffering
When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Deeds Done Forget Good

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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