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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

Viktor E. Frankl

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love Men Secret
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Existential Humanity Psychotherapy
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
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Future Past Today Undermine
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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Challenges Country Fate Inspirational People Victim
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
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
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
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Chaos Mans Meaning Response Search Stimulus
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
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

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