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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
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Psychologist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading so that he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
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Happiness cannot be pursued it must ensue.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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