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

Viktor E. Frankl

If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Becoming Men Should
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
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
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
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
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Life Spark Unique Web
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Answers Life Men
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
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 is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Above Altering Known Life Rise Well
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
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Alive Deepest Meaning Self Spiritual

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