Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
VIKTOR FRANKLDon’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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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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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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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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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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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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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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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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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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