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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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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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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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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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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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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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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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A human being is not one thing among others things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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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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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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