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Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't
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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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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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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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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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