One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHaving been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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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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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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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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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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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