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 FRANKLThe quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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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 more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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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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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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