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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
Neurologist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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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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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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There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations. But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my defense mechanisms, nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my reaction formations.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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