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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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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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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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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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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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...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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How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or dynamisms of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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