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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Viktor E. Frankl

Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
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
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
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
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Existential Humanity Psychotherapy
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Intimate Partners Solliloquies
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
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
But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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Frank Image Mind Real Wife
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
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Future Looking Meaning Men Search
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love Men Secret
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Country Lectures Ministry Ultimately

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