In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
VIKTOR FRANKLA human being is a deciding being.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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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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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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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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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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