A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLSunday 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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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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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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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