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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

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
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
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
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Carrying Purpose Woe
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Condition Confront Decision Faces Giving
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
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
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
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
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Fate Inspirational Men
As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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Bears Men Neurology
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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Death Fate Life Meaning Suffering
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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Frame May Spiritual Views

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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