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

Viktor E. Frankl

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
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Actualization Causes Giving Self
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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Detect Gains Men Pain
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Despair Disease Mean Men
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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Despite Humans Situation
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
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
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
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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Attitude Circumstances 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

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