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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

Viktor E. Frankl

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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Become Existence Men Token
Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Envy Past Possibility Reality Suffering
One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Fate Giving Meaningful
The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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Frame May Spiritual Views
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
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
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Meaning Men Search
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
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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Firsts Machine Patient

Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

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