More from Viktor Frankl
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl A human being is a deciding being.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl Success is total self-acceptance.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl What is to give light must endure burning.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
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I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.
Charles DickensCharles Dickens Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir It is beautiful to love people in memories rather than love them when they are near.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur Loving someone unconditionally is equivalent to unintentionally losing yourself in the game, and the damage you inflict on yourself goes unaffected by your lack of self-awareness and self-realization.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur You are the faint line between faith and blindly waiting – letter to my future lover.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur The idea that we are so capable of love but still choose to be toxic.
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