Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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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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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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