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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
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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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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I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.
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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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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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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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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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Somewhere I heard a victorious Yes in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
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For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us rather, these conditions are subject to our decision ... we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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