Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
VIKTOR FRANKLAn abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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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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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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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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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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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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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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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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