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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Viktor Frankl

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Cease Finding Moments Sacrifice Suffering
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
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Freedom Stand
When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Himself Man Meaning Numb Pleasure
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
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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Concern Disease Existence Man Mental Worth
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
There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Ashamed Courage Suffering Tears Witness
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Attitude Choose Freedom
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Life Man Search
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Aware Core Essence Grasp Human Being Love Personality
So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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Act Live Time Wrong
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
There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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Business Decent Race World
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Finding Himself Man Meaning Outside

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