Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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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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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
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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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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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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