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The salvation of man is through love and in love.

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
Professor
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Surgeon
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
Love
Life
Salvation
Men

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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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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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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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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality
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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.
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Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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