Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIt is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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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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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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