It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe last freedom is choosing your attitude.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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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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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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.
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