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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIt said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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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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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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