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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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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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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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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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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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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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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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