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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

Viktor E. Frankl

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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Attitude Circumstances Lasts
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Existential Humanity Psychotherapy
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 a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Future Looking Meaning Men Search
Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Hands Long Sleep
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Neurosis People Sunday
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
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
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
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
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
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
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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Dignity May Men Mentality Spiritual
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

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