Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHuman kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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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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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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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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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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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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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