God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
VIKTOR FRANKLBeing 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.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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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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There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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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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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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