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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI 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.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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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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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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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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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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