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The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

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's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.
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Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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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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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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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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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Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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