The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
VIKTOR FRANKLThose who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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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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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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