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We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.
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
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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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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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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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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Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.
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The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.
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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
Viktor E. Frankl
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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