Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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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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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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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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Success is total self-acceptance.
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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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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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