The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
VIKTOR FRANKLIt is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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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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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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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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