Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
VIKTOR FRANKLThe point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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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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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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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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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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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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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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