The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
VIKTOR FRANKLA human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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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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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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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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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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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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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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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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