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.
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 more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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