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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.
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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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me - and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features.
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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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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.
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The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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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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Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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