Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
VIKTOR FRANKLThere was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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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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