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Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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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A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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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.
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Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
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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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I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.
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The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.
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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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Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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