Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLView life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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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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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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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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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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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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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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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 was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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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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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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