Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
VIKTOR E. FRANKLUltimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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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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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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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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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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