Viktor E. Frankl Quotes - Page 3

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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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• Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

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  Fighting, Self, Soul

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.39, 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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• Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

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  Inspirational, Fate, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

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  Suffering, Spirit, Kind

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• The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal

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  Fate, Fighting, Animal

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.73, Beacon Press

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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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• 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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  Life, Attitude, Real

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.78, Beacon Press

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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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  Self, Sides, Side Effects

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

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• For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

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  Happiness, Dedication, Causes

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Life, Men, Answers

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.110, Beacon Press

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• One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.

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  Meaningful, Fate, Giving

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• When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.

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  Lying, Unique, Opportunity

  "Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition".

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• I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering as soon and as long as he can see a meaning in it.

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  Meaningful, Men, Long

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• If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

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  Suffering, Meaning Of Life, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.73, Beacon Press

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• Success is total self-acceptance.

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  Acceptance, Self, Self Acceptance

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• A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment- he has made out of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.

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  Men, Self, Decision

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.102, 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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• Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

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  Healing, Conflict, Stimulus And Response

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• Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

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  Pain, Remembrance, Deny

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• I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.

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  Ministry, Berlin, Lectures

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.12, Souvenir Press

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• The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

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  Boredom, Vacuums, Existential

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• The last freedom is choosing your attitude.

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  Attitude, Lasts

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• Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

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  Love, Personality, Way

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.87, Beacon Press

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• The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

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  Existence, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (1964). “Man S Search For Meaning”, p.92, Ratna Sagar

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