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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

Viktor Frankl

Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Life Man Search
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Determination Each Other Human Being Ultimate
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his 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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Beloved Importance Love Person Physical Spiritual
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love One Liner Salvation
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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Bad Inspirational World Worse
Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Attain Business Goals Motivational Strive
Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Condition Decision Determination Man
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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Deed Discover Experience Life Meaning Suffering
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Creation Detect Inspirational Mission Travel
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Human Nature Live People
What is to give light must endure burning.
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Burn Endure Giving Light One Liner
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Change Decision Existence Freedom Human Being Instant Man Token
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Assignment Carry Demand Fulfillment Life Mission Purpose
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Attitude Choose Circumstance Freedom Human Man
Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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Aim Business Inspirational Success Target

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

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