But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIt 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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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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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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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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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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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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