The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
VIKTOR FRANKLThose who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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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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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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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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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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