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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
Professor
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Each man is questioned by life and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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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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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed 2. by experiencing a value and 3. by suffering.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.
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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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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.
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The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.
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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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