Unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic.

Viktor E. Frankl
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  1. Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain - Aeschylus

  2. Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be. - Marty Rubin

  3. Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it? - David Gianadda

  4. Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us. - Anonymous

  5. But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more. - Hans Christian Andersen

More Quotes By Viktor E. Frankl
  1. Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.

  2. I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

  3. We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents... Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.

  4. 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.

  5. 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...

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