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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

Viktor E. Frankl

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
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
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Existential Humanity Psychotherapy
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Effort Men Spiritual
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Opportunity Suffering Unhappy
Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Learning Men Teaching
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
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
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Believe Greatest Quests Task Taught
The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Meaningful Purposeful Something Struggle
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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Different Life Suffering
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
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
The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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Attitude Gratitude Lasts
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests

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