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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

Viktor E. Frankl

But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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Frank Image Mind Real Wife
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Challenges Country Fate Inspirational People Victim
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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Famous Fire Inspirational Strong
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Being Happy Inspirational Leadership
It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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Firsts Machine Patient
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Above Altering Known Life Rise Well
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Sides
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Bears Men Philosophers
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Change Happiness Life
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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Determined Giving Men
The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Meaningful Purposeful Something Struggle
Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Giving Successful Suffering
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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Happiness Spiritual Views

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