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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Somewhere I heard a victorious Yes in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.
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