When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
VIKTOR FRANKLHumor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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