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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.
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
Viktor Emil Frankl
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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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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There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations. But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my defense mechanisms, nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my reaction formations.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed 2. by experiencing a value and 3. by suffering.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features.
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Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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