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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves
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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Psychotherapist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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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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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.
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You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
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For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into 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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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.
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One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading so that he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'
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There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations. But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my defense mechanisms, nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my reaction formations.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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