It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLife requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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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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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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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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