Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
VIKTOR FRANKLTo suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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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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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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