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Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his 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
Neurologist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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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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Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.
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The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
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Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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