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.
VIKTOR FRANKLSuccess, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his 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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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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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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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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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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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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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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