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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be
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
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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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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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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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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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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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Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts.
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You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
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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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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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A human being is not one thing among others things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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