View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNo man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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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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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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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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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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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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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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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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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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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