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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Future Looking Meaning Men Search
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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Encounters Existentialism Suffering
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Chance Life Second Time
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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Dignity May Men Mentality Spiritual
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
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love Men Secret
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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Mean People Struggle
When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments
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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Fear Sacrifice 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
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Sides
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men
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 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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Away Choose One Thing Way

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

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