The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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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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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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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 not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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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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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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