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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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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I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering as soon and as long as he can see a meaning in it.
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I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
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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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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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