Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
VIKTOR FRANKLTo suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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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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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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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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