Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
VIKTOR FRANKLWhat is to give light must endure burning.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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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 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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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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