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.
VIKTOR FRANKLThe 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.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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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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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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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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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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