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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
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.
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Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
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A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.
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But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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