In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
VIKTOR FRANKLMan’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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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.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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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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