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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Viktor E. Frankl
Age: 92 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 2
Existential Therapist
Neurologist
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Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
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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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Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
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The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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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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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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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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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the why for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any how.
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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.
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Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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Each man is questioned by life and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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