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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.
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
Viktor Emil Frankl
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And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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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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Each man is questioned by life and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children) it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.
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