View 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
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWe 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.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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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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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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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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