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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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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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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the why for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any how.
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.
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Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Happiness cannot be pursued it must ensue.
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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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Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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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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