It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIt is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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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.
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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 goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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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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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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