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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThis 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.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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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The 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.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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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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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his 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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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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