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.”
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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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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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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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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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