Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHuman kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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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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Sunday 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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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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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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