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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Consequences Goal Psychology Unintended
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Deeds Done Forget Good
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Fate Giving Meaningful
…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
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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Artist Creative Spiritual
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.
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Mean People Struggle
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
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
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search

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