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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

Viktor E. Frankl

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Liberty Responsibility West
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
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
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Life Spark Unique Web
No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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Attitude Circumstances Lasts
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Believe Liberty Mean
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
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
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Believe Greatest Quests Task Taught
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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Frame May Spiritual Views
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

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