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Viktor E Frankl Inspirational Quotes (191)

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For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.
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Happiness cannot be pursued it must ensue.
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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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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't
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At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children) it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
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This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or dynamisms of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.
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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.
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Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.
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