Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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The 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.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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