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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
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
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
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
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
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
As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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Bears Men Neurology
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Sides
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
The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Intimate Partners Solliloquies
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Different Life Suffering
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

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

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