Viktor E. Frankl Quotes - Page 2

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• Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

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  Goal, Higher Goals, Strive

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• To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

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  Suffering, Heroic, Masochistic

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• If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.

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  Men, Becoming, Should

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• Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

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  Strong, Famous Inspirational, Fire

  Viktor E. Frankl (2000). “Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning”, Basic Books

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• Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be

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  Individual, Should, Contribution

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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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  Life, Self, Giving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Life, Suffering, Different

  Viktor E. Frankl (1964). “Man S Search For Meaning”, p.101, Ratna Sagar

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• You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.

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  Journey, Missions, Missions In Life

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• Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

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  Pain, Men, Gains

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being until he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.

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  Love, Success, Essence

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• What is to give light must endure burning.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.57, Souvenir Press

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• For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

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  Life, Change, Song

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

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  Life, Mean, Responsibility

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.63, Beacon Press

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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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  People, Survival, Times Of Crisis

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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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  Life, Responsibility, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.

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  Spiritual, Self, Alive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.36, Beacon Press

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• No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

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  Honesty, Humility, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

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  Life, Time, Second Chance

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• An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

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  Abnormal, Behavior, Reactions

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts.

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  Men, Satisfaction, Instinct

  Viktor E. Frankl (1966). “Man's Search for Meaning”

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• You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me - and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!

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  Children, Clothes, Wife

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• To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

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  Men, World, May

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.91, Beacon Press

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• Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

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  Healing, Conflict, Stimulus And Response

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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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  Art, Humorous, Light

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.40, Beacon Press

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• God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies

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  Intimate, Partners

  Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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