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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments
The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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Attitude Gratitude Lasts
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
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Life Meaning Men Tasks
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Existence Men Moments
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
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
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Happiness
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Chance Life Second Time
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Condition Confront Decision Faces Giving
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Fear Sacrifice Suffering
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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Generation Men Our Prayer

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

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