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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Life Meaning Men Tasks
The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Actualization Causes Giving Self
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
…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
When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments
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
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
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
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Existence Men Moments
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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Despite Humans Situation
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
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

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