The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
VIKTOR FRANKLPain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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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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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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