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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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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Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.
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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
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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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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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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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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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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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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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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'
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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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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.
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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.
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A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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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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