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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

Viktor E. Frankl

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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Alive Deepest Meaning Self Spiritual
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Fate Inspirational Men
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Generation Men Our Prayer
As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Mean People Struggle
Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Condition Confront Decision Faces Giving
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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Causes Dedication Happiness
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Being Happy Inspirational Leadership
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
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
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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Artist Creative Spiritual
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
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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Becoming Men Should
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Life Men Responsibility
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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Afford Lying Men Opportunity Situation

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