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Own Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl
- Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey,…
- What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he…
- 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…
- Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
- Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific…
- The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
- 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.…
- Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond…
- 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…
- Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced,…
- 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…
- Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and…
- Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given…
- Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that… — Christian Bale
- A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits… — Ezra Taft Benson