Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
VIKTOR FRANKLOur greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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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 more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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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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