A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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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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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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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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Success is total self-acceptance.
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