In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLDespair is suffering without meaning.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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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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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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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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What 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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A human being is a deciding being.
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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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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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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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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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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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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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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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