Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
VIKTOR FRANKLLife asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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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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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Man 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.
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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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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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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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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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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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So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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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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