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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Viktor E. Frankl

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Existential Humanity Psychotherapy
If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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Becoming Men Should
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
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
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
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
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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Artist Creative Spiritual
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
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
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
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
Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Encounters Existential Human Long
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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Death Fate Life Meaning Suffering
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation

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