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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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It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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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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