One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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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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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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What 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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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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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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