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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can 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
Neurologist
Professor
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Surgeon
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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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.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.
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Somewhere I heard a victorious Yes in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading so that he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.
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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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Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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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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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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