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On Purpose I

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Daily Reflection

Ultimately, [a person] should not ask what the meaning of [their] life is, but rather must recognize that it is [they] who is asked. In a word, each [person] is questioned by life; and [they] can only answer to life by answering for [their] own life; to life [they] can only respond by being responsible.”

—Viktor Frankl1

*[TW// Clinical References to Suicide]

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