Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
VIKTOR FRANKLA man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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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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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 quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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