Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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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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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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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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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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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