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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Encounters Existential Human Long
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Future Past Today Undermine
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 generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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Generation Men Our Prayer
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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Death Fate Life Meaning Suffering
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Neurosis People Sunday
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
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
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
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
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
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests

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