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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

Viktor E. Frankl

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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Death Fate Life Meaning Suffering
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
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
I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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Long Running Thinking
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
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
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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Honesty Humility Men
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
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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Despair Disease Mean Men
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Condemn Groups Kindness
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
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

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

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