The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.