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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
Neurologist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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A human being is not one thing among others things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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