Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIt is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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