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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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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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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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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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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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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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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