God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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 meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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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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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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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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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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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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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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