Despair is suffering without meaning.
VIKTOR FRANKLThe quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss 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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