Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
VIKTOR FRANKLMan’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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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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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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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 salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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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