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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
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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Alive Deepest Meaning Self Spiritual
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
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
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
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
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
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
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
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
Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Giving Successful Suffering
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Country Lectures Ministry Ultimately
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Fate Inspirational Men
The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Envy Past Possibility Reality Suffering

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