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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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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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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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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 do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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 is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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