Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
VIKTOR FRANKLThe one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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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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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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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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There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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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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