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Viktor E. Frankl
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Viktor E. Frankl
Age: 92 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 2
Existential Therapist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future and how we undermine it, today.
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The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't
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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
Viktor E. Frankl
As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
Viktor E. Frankl
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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