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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

It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
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
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Existential Humanity Psychotherapy
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
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
View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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Frame May Spiritual Views
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
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
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Challenges Life Meaning Men
A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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Able Goal Men
It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Meaningful Spiritual Taken
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

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