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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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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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The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.
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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 point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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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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But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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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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The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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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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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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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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