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

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
Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Condemn Groups Kindness
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Courage Grief Men
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Bears Men Philosophers
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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Attitude Learning Life
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
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Future Looking Meaning Men Search
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Life Spark Unique Web
But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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Frank Image Mind Real Wife
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
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
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering

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