Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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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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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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