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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThen I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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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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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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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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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