Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThen I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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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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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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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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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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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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Thus, 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.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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