More from Viktor Frankl
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl What is to give light must endure burning.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl
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If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he’s good or bad, I think you’re starting out in the wrong direction. I think we’re all good and we’re all bad.
Willie NelsonWillie Nelson Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
Orson WellesOrson Welles There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
John KeatsJohn Keats Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Orson WellesOrson Welles Good thing, bad thing, who knows.
Jay ShettyJay Shetty A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
Thomas MertonThomas Merton If the whole world says it is due to palm lines that my fate is bad, then why can’t I change my palm lines.
Sandeep MaheshwariSandeep Maheshwari There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle