God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHere 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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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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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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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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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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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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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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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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