An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
– Viktor E Frankl
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- Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of. – Viktor E Frankl
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- The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire. – Viktor E Frankl
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- Situation after situation, shape your attitude! Situation after situation change your character! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet. – Matt Haig
- This isn’t normal. This isn’t how normal people think. ???? off, world- what the hell is normal anyway? – Elizabeth Haynes
- Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal – Leonard Ravenhill
- If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them. – Shannon L Alder
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- I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations. – Jane Hersey
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