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It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future and how we undermine it, today.
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
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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children) it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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A human being is not one thing among others things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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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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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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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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