In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
VIKTOR FRANKLThose who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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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 more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of 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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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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