When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
VIKTOR FRANKLHumor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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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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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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