There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLSuccess, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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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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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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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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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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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 quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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