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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

Viktor E. Frankl

It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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Frank Image Mind Real Wife
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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Change Happiness Life
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Effort Men Spiritual
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
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.”
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Life Men Responsibility
Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Learning Men Teaching
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Encounters Existential Human Long
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Bears Men Philosophers

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