We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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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.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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