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. FRANKLSleep [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.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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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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