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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

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
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
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
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
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Believe Liberty Mean
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Country Lectures Ministry Ultimately
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Future Past Today Undermine
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
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 Humans Situation
The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Meaningful Purposeful Something Struggle
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
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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