Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI 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.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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