Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
VIKTOR FRANKLBetween 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.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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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.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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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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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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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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