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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’

Viktor E. Frankl

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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Despair Disease Mean Men
You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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Children Clothes Wife
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Intimate Partners Solliloquies
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
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
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
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Existential Humanity Psychotherapy
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
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
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
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
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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Attitude Learning Life
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
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 can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men

It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’

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