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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Viktor E. Frankl

Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
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
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
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
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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Hands Long Sleep
Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Encounters Existential Human Long
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Challenges Life Meaning Men
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Honesty Humility Men
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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Life Men Responsibility

As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

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