Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
VIKTOR FRANKLNothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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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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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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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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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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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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