Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
VIKTOR FRANKLThose who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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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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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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