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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
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
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
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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Change Happiness Life
When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments
The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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Attitude Gratitude Lasts
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Chance Life Second Time
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
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
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
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men
View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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Frame May Spiritual Views
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
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive

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