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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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
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Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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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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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.
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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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For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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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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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.
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