Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
VIKTOR FRANKLA man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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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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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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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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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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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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 not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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