Being 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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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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 man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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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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