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Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.

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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.

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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.

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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.

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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

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When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves.

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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

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

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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

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Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.

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Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

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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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It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away -
that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

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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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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

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Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.

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