Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
VIKTOR FRANKLIt isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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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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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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