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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

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
Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Condition Decision Determination Man
When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Himself Man Meaning Numb Pleasure
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
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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God Intimat Partner
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 attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Art Attempt Development Learning Light Live Master Sense Of Humor Trick
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Freedom Stand
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
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Absolute Done Himself Honesty Judgment Man Same Situation
Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Fight Humor Preservation Soul Weapon
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Bad Deed Done Forget Good Grudge
To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Hero Suffering Uneccessary
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

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

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