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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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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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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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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