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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Viktor E. Frankl
Age: 92 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 2
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There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations. But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my defense mechanisms, nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my reaction formations.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.
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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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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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I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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