Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
VIKTOR FRANKLThere 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.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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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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