When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe 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.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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