Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNow, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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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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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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