Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHaving been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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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 is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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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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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.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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