The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
VIKTOR FRANKLBetween 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.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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