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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

Viktor Frankl

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Aware Core Essence Grasp Human Being Love Personality
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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Beyond Control Except Force Freedom Respond Situation
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Challenge Change Inspirational Ourselves Situation
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Abnormal Behavior Normal Reaction Situation
Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Freedom Life Meaning Purpose Spiritual
A human being is a deciding being.
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Decision Human Being One Liner
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Concern Disease Existence Man Mental Worth
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Finding Himself Man Meaning Outside
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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Business Decent Race World
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 Freedom Human Life Physical Situation
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Attitude Choose Circumstance Freedom Human Man
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Cease Finding Moments Sacrifice Suffering
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Assignment Carry Demand Fulfillment Life Mission Purpose
Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Attain Business Goals Motivational Strive
So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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Act Live Time Wrong

Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

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