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. FRANKLFundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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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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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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