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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhat you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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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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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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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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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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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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