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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Viktor E. Frankl

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
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
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
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
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Challenges Life Meaning Men
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
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Fate Inspirational Men
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
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
As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Mean People Struggle
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
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
When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

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