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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.

Viktor E. Frankl

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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Answers Life Men
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
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Challenges Country Fate Inspirational People Victim
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
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Life Spark Unique Web
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Carrying Purpose Woe
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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Limits Men Self Ultimately
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Liberty Responsibility West
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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Afford Lying Men Opportunity Situation
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search

One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.

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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.

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