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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor E. Frankl

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Existence Men Moments
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
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
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
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
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Art Develop Humorous Light
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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Beautiful Death Symphony
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
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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Becoming Men Should
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Different Life Suffering
This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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Kind Spirit Suffering

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