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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.

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
Surgeon
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
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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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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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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.
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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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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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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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One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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A man who could not see the end of hisprovisional existence was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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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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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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Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.
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