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The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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 is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
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Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed 2. by experiencing a value and 3. by suffering.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me - and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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