I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMost important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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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 am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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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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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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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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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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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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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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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 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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