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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
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
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
…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
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
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
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Earth Mans Meaning Search
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Art Develop Humorous Light
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
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Country Lectures Ministry Ultimately
It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Meaningful Spiritual Taken
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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Limits Men Self Ultimately
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

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