Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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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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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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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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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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