You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI 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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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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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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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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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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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