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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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