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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

Viktor E. Frankl

Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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Afford Lying Men Opportunity Situation
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
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
A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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Able Goal Men
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Away Choose One Thing Way
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Carrying Purpose Woe
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Future Looking Meaning Men Search
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Meaningful Spiritual Taken
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
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
The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Actualization Causes Giving Self
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
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Earth Mans Meaning Search
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
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

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