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.
VIKTOR FRANKLEveryone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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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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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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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 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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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