The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEach man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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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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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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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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