The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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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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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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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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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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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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