60+ Viktor Frankl Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
VIKTOR FRANKL

Acknowledgement Belief Believe Conscience Obey Tolerance
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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Deed Discover Experience Life Meaning Suffering
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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Concern Disease Existence Man Mental Worth
Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Belief God Unconditional
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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Despite Freedom Human Life Physical Situation
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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Business Decent Race World
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Determination Future Life Past Present
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Freedom Stand
Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Deny Existence Hard Time Inspirational Pain Struggle Suffering
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.
VIKTOR FRANKL

Art Attempt Development Learning Light Live Master Sense Of Humor Trick
There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Ashamed Courage Suffering Tears Witness
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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Change Decision Existence Freedom Human Being Instant Man Token
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Flourish Health Human Key Meaning Mental
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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God Intimat Partner
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Attitude Choose Circumstance Freedom Human Man
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love One Liner Salvation
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love One Liner Salvation
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Finding Himself Man Meaning Outside
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Human Nature Live People
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Conscience Endurance Life Overcome Person Task Trouble
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Be Yourself Life Separate Spark Unique
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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Beloved Importance Love Person Physical Spiritual
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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Cease Finding Moments Sacrifice Suffering
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Determination Each Other Human Being Ultimate
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Abnormal Behavior Normal Reaction Situation
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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Act Live Time Wrong
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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Beyond Control Except Force Freedom Respond Situation

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