Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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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.
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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