What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLive as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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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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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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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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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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