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.
VIKTOR FRANKLTo suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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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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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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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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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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