Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
VIKTOR FRANKLWhen we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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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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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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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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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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