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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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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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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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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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