Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
VIKTOR FRANKLEveryone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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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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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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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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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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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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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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