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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
Professor
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Surgeon
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.
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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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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
Viktor E. Frankl
Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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