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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEach of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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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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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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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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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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