But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNow, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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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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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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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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