Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
VIKTOR FRANKLSo 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!
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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