If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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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 is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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