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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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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I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.
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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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Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.
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A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.
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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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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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Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or dynamisms of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.
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