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.
VIKTOR FRANKLEver more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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