Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
VIKTOR FRANKLFor the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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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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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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