Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
VIKTOR FRANKLEither belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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