It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhen we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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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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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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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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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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