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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
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
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
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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Answers Meditation Thinking
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
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
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Deeds Done Forget Good
The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Meaningful Purposeful Something Struggle
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
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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Determined Giving Men
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Believe Greatest Quests Task Taught

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

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