Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEach man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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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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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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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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