When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
VIKTOR FRANKLHappiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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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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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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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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