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More Quotes by Viktor Frankl
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.
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
What is to give light must endure burning.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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.
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.
The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.