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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.
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I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.
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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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But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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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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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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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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Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
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A man who could not see the end of hisprovisional existence was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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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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