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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
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Psychiatrist
Psychologist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be
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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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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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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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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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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed 2. by experiencing a value and 3. by suffering.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.
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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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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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