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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
Existential Therapist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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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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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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This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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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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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
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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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A human being is not one thing among others things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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