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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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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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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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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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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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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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.
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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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We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.
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Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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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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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.
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