Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
VIKTOR FRANKLThe one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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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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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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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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