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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
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
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
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
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Art Develop Humorous Light
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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Life Men Responsibility
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
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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Bears Men Neurology
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Future Past Today Undermine
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
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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Artist Creative Spiritual
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation

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