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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLive as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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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.
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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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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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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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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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