Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe salvation of man is through love and in love.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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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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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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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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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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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