It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
VIKTOR FRANKLIt is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
VIKTOR FRANKLMan does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
VIKTOR FRANKLTo suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
VIKTOR FRANKLEither belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
VIKTOR FRANKLEven when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
VIKTOR FRANKLEven when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
VIKTOR FRANKLYou don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
VIKTOR FRANKLDespair is suffering without meaning.
VIKTOR FRANKLNothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
VIKTOR FRANKLOur greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
VIKTOR FRANKLSuccess is total self-acceptance.
VIKTOR FRANKLBetween 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.
VIKTOR FRANKLWhen a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
VIKTOR FRANKLA man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
VIKTOR FRANKLEach of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
VIKTOR FRANKLBeing 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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