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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

Viktor E. Frankl

One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Challenges Country Fate Inspirational People Victim
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Meaning Men Search
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
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
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
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
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
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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Long Running Thinking
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
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

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