A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
VIKTOR FRANKLEach of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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Between 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.
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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 main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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