Viktor Frankl quotes - page 3

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. (Viktor Frankl)
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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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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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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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us. (Viktor Frankl)
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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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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There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.
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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'
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Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
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Human potential at its best is to transform a tragedy into a personal triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement. (Viktor Frankl)
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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But we cannot "give” meaning to the life of others. And if this is true of meaning per se, how much does it hold for Ultimate Meaning?
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You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to "saints."
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It is true, Logotherapy, deals with the Logos; it deals with Meaning.
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