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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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Decent Incident Men Race Two
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Being Happy Inspirational Leadership
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Liberty Responsibility West
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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Famous Fire Inspirational Strong
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love Men Secret
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Effort Men Spiritual
Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Condition Confront Decision Faces Giving
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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Attitude Learning Life
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 is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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Encounters Existentialism Suffering

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