Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in 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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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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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