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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMost 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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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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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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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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