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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Meaning Men Search
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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Attitude Grateful Gratitude
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Envy Past Possibility Reality Suffering
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Answers Life Men
Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Encounters Existential Human Long
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 Humans Situation
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Opportunity Suffering Unhappy
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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