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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More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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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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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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.
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