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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLView your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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But 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.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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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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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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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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