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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

Viktor E. Frankl

The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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Attitude Gratitude Lasts
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
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
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Above Altering Known Life Rise Well
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
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
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Different Life Suffering
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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Beautiful Death Symphony
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Fate Inspirational Men
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
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
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Existence Men Moments
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum

The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

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