Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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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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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 we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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