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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Viktor E. Frankl

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
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
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Intimate Partners Solliloquies
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
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
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
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
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
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
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Future Looking Meaning Men Search
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Become Existence Men Token
This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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Kind Spirit Suffering
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search

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