Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNo 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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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 can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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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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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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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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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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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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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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