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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

Viktor Frankl

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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Avoid Concern Gain Life Man Meaning Pain Pleasure
Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Deny Existence Hard Time Inspirational Pain Struggle Suffering
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Human Nature Live People
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
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Act Inspirational Live Time Wrong
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Choose Respond
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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Despite Freedom Human Life Physical Situation
Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Inspirational Intelligence Life
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
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Be Yourself Life Separate Spark Unique
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Determination Future Life Past Present
What is to give light must endure burning.
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Burn Endure Giving Light One Liner
To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Hero Suffering Uneccessary
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
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
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering

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