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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

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
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
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 this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Meaningful Spiritual Taken
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
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Being Happy Inspirational Leadership
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Earth Mans Meaning Search
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Neurosis People Sunday
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
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Liberty Responsibility West
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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Able Goal Men

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