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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Alive Deepest Meaning Self Spiritual
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
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 meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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Long Running Thinking
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
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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Firsts Machine Patient
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
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
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
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

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