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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNo 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.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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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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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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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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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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