Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
VIKTOR FRANKLA human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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