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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.
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
Viktor E. Frankl
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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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[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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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.
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This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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