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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Challenges Life Meaning Men
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Alive Deepest Meaning Self Spiritual
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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Meaning Men Search World
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
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
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
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
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
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
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
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
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
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
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Deeds Done Forget Good
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Giving Successful Suffering
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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Artist Creative Spiritual

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