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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
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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Able Goal Men
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
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.
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Generation Men Our Prayer
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 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
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men
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
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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Encounters Existentialism Suffering
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

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