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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

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It can have meaning if it changes you for the better.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

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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.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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If I don't do it—who will do it? And if I don't do it right now—when should I do it? But if I do it for my own sake only—what am I?

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian S) (Rei Exp)

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Man, by having become a human being, in no way ceases to remain an animal, anymore than an airplane ceases to be capable of moving around the ground of the airport.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian S) (Rei Exp)

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There is a subject nowadays which is taboo in the way that sexuality was once taboo; which is to talk about life as if it had any meaning.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian S) (Rei Exp)

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As the boomerang comes back to the hunter who has thrown it only if it has missed its target, man, too, returns to himself and is intent upon self-actualization only if he has missed his mission.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

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Procreation is not the only meaning of life, for then life in itself would become meaningless, and something which in itself is meaningless cannot be rendered meaningful merely by its perpetuation.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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What is to give light must endure burning.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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There 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.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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What then is the meaning of money, or for that matter, the meaning of possessing money? Most of those people who possess it are really possessed by it, obsessing by the urge to multiply it, and thus they nullify its meaning. For the possession of money should mean that one is in a fortunate position. One can afford to pay no attention to money, the means, but rather to pursue the ends themselves—those ends that money should serve.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

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Pleasure, rather than being the end of man's striving, is actually the effect of meaning fulfillment. And power, rather than being an end in itself, is actually the means to an end; if man is to live out his will to meaning, a certain amount of power–day financial power–by and large will be an indispensable prerequisite. Only if one's original concern with meaning fulfillment is frustrated is one either content with power or intent on pleasure.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

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Viktor Frankl Quotes

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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

It can have meaning if it changes you for the better.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

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.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

If I don't do it—who will do it? And if I don't do it right now—when should I do it? But if I do it for my own sake only—what am I?

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian S) (Rei Exp)

Man, by having become a human being, in no way ceases to remain an animal, anymore than an airplane ceases to be capable of moving around the ground of the airport.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian S) (Rei Exp)

There is a subject nowadays which is taboo in the way that sexuality was once taboo; which is to talk about life as if it had any meaning.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian S) (Rei Exp)

As the boomerang comes back to the hunter who has thrown it only if it has missed its target, man, too, returns to himself and is intent upon self-actualization only if he has missed his mission.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

Procreation is not the only meaning of life, for then life in itself would become meaningless, and something which in itself is meaningless cannot be rendered meaningful merely by its perpetuation.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

What is to give light must endure burning.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

There 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.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

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