It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLAs such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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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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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal 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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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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