Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLUltimately, 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.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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