Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

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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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  Happiness, Peace, Freedom

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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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  Force, Situation, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.5, Beacon Press

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• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

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  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

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  Tasks, Quests, Taught

  "Optimism Or Overconfidence?" by Blythe McGarvie, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that 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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  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

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  Men, Decision, Determine

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• When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

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  Pleasure, Persons

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• Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

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  Wise, Powerful, Purpose

  "This Man Faced Unimaginable Suffering, And Then Wrote The Definitive Book About Happiness" by Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2014.

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• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Being Happy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

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  Business, Attitude, Freedom To Choose

  "Lifeway CEO’s Secret Ingredient? Attitude" by George Bradt, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2013.

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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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  Suffering, Spirit, Kind

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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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  Dedication, Causes, Sides

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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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  Way, One Thing

  "Gratitude for Viktor Frankl" by Peg Melnik, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2014.

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• The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.

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  Helping Others, Helping, Life Is

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• What is to give light must endure burning.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.57, Souvenir Press

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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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  Situation, Humans, Despite

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• We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. 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. When we are no longer able to change a situation-just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer-we are challenged to change ourselves.

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  Cancer, Fate, Thinking

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.111, Beacon Press

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• Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

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  Fighting, Self, Soul

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

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  Healing, Conflict, Stimulus And Response

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• To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. 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. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

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  Men, World, May

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.91, Beacon Press

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• For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. 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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  Life, Change, Song

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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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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  Honesty, Humility, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.55, Beacon Press

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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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  Goal, Psychology, Unintended Consequences

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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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  Past, Today

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• The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

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  Keys, Quests, Mental Health

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.120, Beacon Press

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