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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.

Viktor E. Frankl

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Viktor E. Frankl
Age: 92 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 2
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Vienna
Austria
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Viktor Emil Frankl
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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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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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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A human being is not one thing among others things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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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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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't
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