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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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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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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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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.
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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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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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Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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Each man is questioned by life and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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