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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Future Looking Meaning Men Search
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
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
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
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
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
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
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
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Away Choose One Thing Way
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational

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