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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children) it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.
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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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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'
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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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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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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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The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!
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