Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
VIKTOR FRANKLMan’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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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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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 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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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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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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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