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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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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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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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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a secondary rationalization of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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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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