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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.

Viktor E. Frankl

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Effort Men Spiritual
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
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
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
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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Dignity May Men Mentality Spiritual
The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Meaningful Purposeful Something Struggle
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Opportunity Suffering Unhappy
There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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Decent Incident Men Race Two
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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Happiness Spiritual Views
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational

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