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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.

Viktor Frankl

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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Deed Discover Experience Life Meaning Suffering
The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Deep Forget Human Life Person
So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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Act Live Time Wrong
Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Fight Humor Preservation Soul Weapon
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Life Man Search
When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Himself Man Meaning Numb Pleasure
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Aware Core Essence Grasp Human Being Love Personality
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Circumstance Lack Life Meaning Purpose
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Assignment Carry Demand Fulfillment Life Mission Purpose
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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Bad Inspirational World Worse
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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Despite Freedom Human Life Physical Situation
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Choose Respond
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Conscience Endurance Life Overcome Person Task Trouble
Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Inspirational Intelligence Life
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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Cease Finding Moments Sacrifice Suffering

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