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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his 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
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Life Meaning Men Tasks
The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Meaningful Purposeful Something Struggle
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
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
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
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Intimate Partners Solliloquies
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
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
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
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Answers Life Men
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments
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
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
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

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