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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

Viktor E. Frankl

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Condemn Groups Kindness
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
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
But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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Frank Image Mind Real Wife
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
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
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
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Meaning Men Search
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
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
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
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
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Become Existence Men Token

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