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.
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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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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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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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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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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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