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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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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering as soon and as long as he can see a meaning in it.
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Somewhere I heard a victorious Yes in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us rather, these conditions are subject to our decision ... we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future and how we undermine it, today.
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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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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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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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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
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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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