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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.

Viktor E. Frankl

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Meaningful Purposeful Something Struggle
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
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
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
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men
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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Love Men Secret
It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Meaningful Spiritual Taken
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
Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Hands Long Sleep
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Life Meaning Men Tasks
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Deeds Done Forget Good
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Despair Disease Mean Men

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