What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhat man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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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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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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