When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhen we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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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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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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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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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Each 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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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