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The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Viktor E. Frankl
Age: 92 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 2
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Vienna
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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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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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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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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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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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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality
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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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You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
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It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Somewhere I heard a victorious Yes in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.
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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.
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Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children) it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.
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And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!
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