"Love
is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of
his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of
another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to
see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even
more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet
actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love,
the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these
potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he
should become, he makes these potentialities come true."
"A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man
is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits of
endowment and environment - he has made out of himself. In the
concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this
testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave
like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both
potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on
decisions but not on conditions." "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl
