It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
VIKTOR E. FRANKL…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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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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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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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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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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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