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We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.
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
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When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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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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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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 angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
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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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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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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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