When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLife can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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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 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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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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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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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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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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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