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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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Psychologist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Happiness cannot be pursued it must ensue.
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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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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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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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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves
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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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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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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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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.
Viktor E. Frankl
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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