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• The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition".

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• Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Friendship, Loss, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

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  Angel, Infinite, Glory

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Past, Reality, Thinking

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

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  Men, Understanding, Suffering

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

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  Successful, Giving, Suffering

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.136, Beacon Press

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• Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Life, Goal

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• Consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown. However, we cannot understand the whole film without having first understood each of its components, each of the individual pictures. Isn't it the same with life? Doesn't the final meaning of life, too, reveal itself, it at all, only at its end, on the verge of death?

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Meaning Of Life, Finals, Lasts

  Viktor E Frankl (2013). “Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust”, p.145, Random House

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• Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Love Is, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

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  Bodybuilding, Stronger, Doe

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

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  Achievement, Tragedy, Triumph

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.87, Beacon Press

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• 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.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Spiritual, Views, May

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• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

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  Inspirational, Essence, Beloved Person

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.87, Beacon Press

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• Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide.

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  Suicide, Fall, People

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• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

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  World, Venture, Helping

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.105, Beacon Press

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• Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Mom, Attitude, Parent

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• I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

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  Tasks, Pleasant

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• 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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  Men, Doe, Next

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.129, Beacon Press

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• Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

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  Worst Situation, Goal, Challenges

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• When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.

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  Lying, Acceptance, Unique

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.64, Beacon Press

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

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  Teaching, Learning, Men

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.11, Souvenir Press

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• 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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  Prayer, Men, Our Generation

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.

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  Hurt, Children, Pain

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.25, Beacon Press

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• Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Politics, Stakes

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away -
  that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

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  Meaningful, Spiritual, Taken

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.56, Beacon Press

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