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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
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.
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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 last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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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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