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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in 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. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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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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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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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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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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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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