Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
VIKTOR FRANKLIt isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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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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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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 quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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