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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

Viktor E. Frankl

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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Fear Sacrifice Suffering
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
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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Generation Men Our Prayer
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Happiness
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
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
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Chance Life Second Time
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love Men Secret
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

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