Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLBeing tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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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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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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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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 quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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