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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Viktor E. Frankl

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.
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Change Happiness Life
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
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Existential Humanity Psychotherapy
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
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Believe Greatest Quests Task Taught
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
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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Become Existence Men Token
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Different Life Suffering
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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Kind Spirit Suffering
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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Beautiful Death Symphony

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

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