What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLove goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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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The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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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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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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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.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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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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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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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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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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