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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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
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Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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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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...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Each man is questioned by life and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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