Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
VIKTOR FRANKLForces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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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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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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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 human being is a deciding being.
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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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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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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