Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
VIKTOR FRANKLEven when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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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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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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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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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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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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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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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 point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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