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A human being is a deciding being.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Existential Humanity Psychotherapy
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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Attitude Gratitude Lasts
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Above Altering Known Life Rise Well
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Bears Men Philosophers
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Meaning Men Search
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
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Meaningful Purposeful Something Struggle
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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Limits Men Self Ultimately
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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