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…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.

Viktor E. Frankl

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Become Existence Men Token
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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Attitude Grateful Gratitude
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
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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Detect Gains Men Pain
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational 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
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
Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Envy Past Possibility Reality Suffering
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
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
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Challenges Country Fate Inspirational People Victim
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
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

…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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…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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