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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Consequences Goal Psychology Unintended
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
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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Determined Giving Men
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
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
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
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
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Chance Life Second Time
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
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
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Future Past Today Undermine
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
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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Fate Giving Meaningful
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

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