The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
VIKTOR FRANKLThe more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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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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Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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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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