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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
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
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Challenges Life Meaning Men
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Consequences Goal Psychology Unintended
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
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
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
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
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
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
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
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
Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Condemn Groups Kindness
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
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Intimate Partners Solliloquies
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
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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Attitude Circumstances Lasts
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
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Bears Men Philosophers
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.
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Become Existence Men Token
Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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Meaning Men Search World
It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Meaningful Spiritual Taken
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
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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