Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
VIKTOR FRANKLNo man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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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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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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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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