Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its 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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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