Best quotes by Viktor E. Frankl on Life

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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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• ‟ 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, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

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• ‟ Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

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• ‟ 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 by being responsible.

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• ‟ Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

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• ‟ A thought transfixed me: 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 the highest goal to which man can aspire.

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• ‟ 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.

  - Viktor E. Frankl