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• Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

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  Men, Giving, Determined

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.100, 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.

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  Mom, Attitude, Parent

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• Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

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  Men, World, Search For Meaning

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

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• I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

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  Running, Thinking, Long

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.

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  Gratitude, Attitude, Lasts

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• Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

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  Goal, Wish, Sides

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.122, Beacon Press

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• In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness.

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  Morning, Light, Darkness

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, 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.

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  Spiritual, Views, May

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

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  Men, Politics, Stakes

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

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• Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Responsibility

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

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  Sports, Sacrifice, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Friendship, Loss, Men

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

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• The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

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  Boredom, Vacuums, Existential

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves

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  Predicaments, Capable

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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?

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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Men, Challenges, Meaning Of Life

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.

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  Dream, Sorry, Sleep

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.29, Beacon Press

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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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• I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.

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  Knowing, Trying, Done

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• I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

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  Life, Book, Writing

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

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  Responsibility, Liberty, West

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.101, Beacon Press

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