It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhen we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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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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