It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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 said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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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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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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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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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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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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But 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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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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