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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Viktor E. Frankl

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
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
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Earth Mans Meaning Search
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Country Lectures Ministry Ultimately
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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Artist Creative Spiritual
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Hands Long Sleep
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
When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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Beautiful Death Symphony
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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Limits Men Self Ultimately
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Meaningful Spiritual Taken
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
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Answers Life Men
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
It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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Firsts Machine Patient
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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Famous Fire Inspirational Strong
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive

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