Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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It is always important to have something yet to do in 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 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 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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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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