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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.

Viktor E. Frankl

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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Change Happiness Life
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
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
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Happiness
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Existential Humanity Psychotherapy
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
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
Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Envy Past Possibility Reality Suffering
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
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
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions

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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