Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
VIKTOR FRANKLLive as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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 does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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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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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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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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Success is total self-acceptance.
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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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So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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