We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
VIKTOR FRANKLDespair is suffering without meaning.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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