Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLInstead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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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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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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