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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.
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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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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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Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.
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Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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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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