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 FRANKLEverything 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.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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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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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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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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