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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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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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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When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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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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Somewhere I heard a victorious Yes in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.
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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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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.
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