Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhat you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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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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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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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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