Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNo man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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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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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into 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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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I 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.
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