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.
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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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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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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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