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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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
Professor
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.
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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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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Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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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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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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Success is total self-acceptance.
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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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You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
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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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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Happiness cannot be pursued it must ensue.
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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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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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