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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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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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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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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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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.
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Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
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Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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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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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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