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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.

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
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
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
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
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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Frank Image Mind Real Wife
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Consequences Goal Psychology Unintended
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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Dignity May Men Mentality Spiritual
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
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Neurosis People Sunday
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
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

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