The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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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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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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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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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