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I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.
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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.
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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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It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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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 main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
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