It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLAt any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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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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