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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
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
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
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
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
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
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
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
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
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Opportunity Suffering Unhappy
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Chance Life Second Time
The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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Attitude Gratitude Lasts
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Believe Liberty Mean

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