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.
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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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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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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