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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Above Altering Known Life Rise Well
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Believe Liberty Mean
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
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
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
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
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Fear Sacrifice Suffering
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
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
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Meaningful Spiritual Taken
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
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
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

There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.

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