Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
VIKTOR FRANKLIn times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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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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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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