A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThen I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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