Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
VIKTOR FRANKLMan can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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 is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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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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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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