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One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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
Surgeon
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
Auschwitz
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.
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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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There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations. But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my defense mechanisms, nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my reaction formations.
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future...And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task.
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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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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 is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.
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