Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLBut 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.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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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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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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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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