When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHaving been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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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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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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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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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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