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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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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A man who could not see the end of hisprovisional existence was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.
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You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
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Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the why for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any how.
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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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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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