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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.
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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.
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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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A man who could not see the end of hisprovisional existence was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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