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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

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
Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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Afford Lying Men Opportunity Situation
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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Attitude Grateful Gratitude
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Intimate Partners Solliloquies
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Actualization Causes Giving Self
Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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Meaning Men Search World
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
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Challenges Country Fate Inspirational People Victim
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Effort Men Spiritual

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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