Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
VIKTOR FRANKLYou don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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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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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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