For too long a time--for half a century, in fact--psychiatry tried to interpret the human mind merely as a mechanism, and consequently the therapy of mental disease merely in terms of technique. I believe this dream has been dreamt out. What now begins to loom on the horizon is not psychologized medicine but rather those of human psychiatry.
("Man's Search for Meaning")
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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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