No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Ultimately, 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.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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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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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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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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