Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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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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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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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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