In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhat was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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