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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIn his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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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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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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 you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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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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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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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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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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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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