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Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.
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 search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a secondary rationalization of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to 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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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children) it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.
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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality
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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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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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A man who could not see the end of hisprovisional existence was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
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