Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLBeing 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.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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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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 said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by 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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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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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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