Man 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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIt is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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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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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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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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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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