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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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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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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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Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
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Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.
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Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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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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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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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Success is total self-acceptance.
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A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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