Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
VIKTOR FRANKLEach of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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.
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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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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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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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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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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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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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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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