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When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
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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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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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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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
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We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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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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Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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