But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNo one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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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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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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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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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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I 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.
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