But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his 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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Ultimately, 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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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