It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLYou 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!
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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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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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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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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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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The 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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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