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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
Professor
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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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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And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.
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You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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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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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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