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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading so that he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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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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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.
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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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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.
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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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...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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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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It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'
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The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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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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Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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