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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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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 here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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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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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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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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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed 2. by experiencing a value and 3. by suffering.
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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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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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Happiness cannot be pursued it must ensue.
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But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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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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Success is total self-acceptance.
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