The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIn some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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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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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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