One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEach of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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