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It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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Psychologist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a secondary rationalization of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.
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Happiness cannot be pursued it must ensue.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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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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Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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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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Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'
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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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 do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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