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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
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
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
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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Despite Humans Situation
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Liberty Responsibility West
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
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Intimate Partners Solliloquies
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Carrying Purpose Woe
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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Life Men Responsibility
This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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Kind Spirit Suffering
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Sides
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
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search

It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

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