60+ Viktor Frankl Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Aware Core Essence Grasp Human Being Love Personality
Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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Aim Business Inspirational Success Target
Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Inspirational Intelligence Life
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Attitude Choose Freedom
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Bad Deed Done Forget Good Grudge
A human being is a deciding being.
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Decision Human Being One Liner
Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Fight Humor Preservation Soul Weapon
Success is total self-acceptance.
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Acceptance One Liner Success
Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Attain Business Goals Motivational Strive
Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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Contrubution Discover Individual Life
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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Bad Inspirational World Worse
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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Absolute Done Himself Honesty Judgment Man Same Situation
Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Condition Decision Determination Man
The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Deep Forget Human Life Person
When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Himself Man Meaning Numb Pleasure
What is to give light must endure burning.
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Burn Endure Giving Light One Liner
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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Choose Respond
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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Avoid Concern Gain Life Man Meaning Pain Pleasure
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Challenge Change Inspirational Ourselves Situation
Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Attain Business Goals Motivational Strive
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Pursue
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Creation Detect Inspirational Mission Travel
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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Deep Expectation Inspirational Life
To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Hero Suffering Uneccessary
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Assignment Carry Demand Fulfillment Life Mission Purpose
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Dedication Effect Happiness Oneself Personal Success Unexpected

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