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Happiness cannot be pursued it must ensue.
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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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.
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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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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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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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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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You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
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I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.
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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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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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