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Woe to him who, when the day of his dreams finally came, found it so different from all he had longed for! Perhaps he boarded a trolley, traveled out to the home which he had seen for years in his mind, and only in his mind, and pressed the bell, just as he has longed to do in thousands of dreams, only to find that the person who should open the door was not there, and would never be there again

“How often in the past years had we been deceived by dreams!”

Excerpt From
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
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“But 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. Only very few realized that.”

Excerpt From
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
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“We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life, daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”

forget your mourning, abandon this mausoleum. Start to live, study, do good, help. What you have isn't a problem, it's a solution. Don't play at being a heroine of a romance novel. Follow my advice. Return to your life and consider yourself with more generous things than the cultivation of your own pain. Enjoy yourself, travel, take a lover. It's what your husband would have done if he had died of tuberculosis.