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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
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
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
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
View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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Happiness Spiritual Views
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Intimate Partners Solliloquies
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
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
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
One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Fate Giving Meaningful
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
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
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
…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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Answers Meditation Thinking
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks

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