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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Attitude Choose Circumstance Freedom Human Man
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Man Raise Strength
Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Deny Existence Hard Time Inspirational Pain Struggle Suffering
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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Concern Disease Existence Man Mental Worth
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Act Inspirational Live Time Wrong
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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Cease Finding Moments Sacrifice Suffering
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Conscience Endurance Life Overcome Person Task Trouble
Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Freedom Life Meaning Purpose Spiritual
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Flourish Health Human Key Meaning Mental
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Determination Each Other Human Being Ultimate
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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Acknowledgement Belief Believe Conscience Obey Tolerance
A human being is a deciding being.
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Decision Human Being One Liner
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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Change Decision Existence Freedom Human Being Instant Man Token
Success is total self-acceptance.
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Acceptance One Liner Success
Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Belief God Unconditional
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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Avoid Concern Gain Life Man Meaning Pain Pleasure
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Meaning One Liner Suffering
When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Himself Man Meaning Numb Pleasure
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Pursue
The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Deep Forget Human Life Person
To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Hero Suffering Uneccessary
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Life Man Search
So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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Act Live Time Wrong
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Dedication Effect Happiness Oneself Personal Success Unexpected
Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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Aim Business Inspirational Success Target
What is to give light must endure burning.
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Burn Endure Giving Light One Liner

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