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A human being is a deciding being.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Viktor E. Frankl
Age: 92 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 2
Existential Therapist
Neurologist
Professor
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!
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The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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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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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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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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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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