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!
VIKTOR E. FRANKL…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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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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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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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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