A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLive as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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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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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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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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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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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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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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