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.
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 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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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It 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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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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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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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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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.
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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