No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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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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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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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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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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