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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLView 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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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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