In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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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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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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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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