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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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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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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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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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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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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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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 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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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 human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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