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.
VIKTOR FRANKLBeing 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.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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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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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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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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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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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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