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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.
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This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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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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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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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It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.
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I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed 2. by experiencing a value and 3. by suffering.
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Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
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The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.
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