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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Challenges Life Meaning Men
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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Limits Men Self Ultimately
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
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
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
You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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Children Clothes Wife
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
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
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
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
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
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
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Bears Men Neurology

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

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