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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or dynamisms of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.
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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 meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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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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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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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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[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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It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
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