Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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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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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 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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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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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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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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.
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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