The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
VIKTOR FRANKLThe more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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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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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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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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