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Viktor E Frankl Inspirational Quotes (191)

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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.
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Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.
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It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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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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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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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be
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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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