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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

Viktor E. Frankl

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
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
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.
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Above Altering Known Life Rise Well
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
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
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Earth Mans Meaning Search
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
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Honesty Humility Men
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Courage Grief Men
There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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Decent Incident Men Race Two
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Fear Sacrifice Suffering
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Believe Greatest Quests Task Taught
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
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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Becoming Men Should
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Different Life Suffering
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Existence Men Moments
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
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
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Life Meaning Men Tasks
The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Meaningful Purposeful Something Struggle
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
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

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