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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.
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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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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I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.
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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Happiness cannot be pursued it must ensue.
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Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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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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