Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNo 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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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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