Viktor E. Frankl Quotes - Page 4

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• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  "How Doing What You Love Serves Humanity" by Jason Mannino, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2009.

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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!

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Gratitude, Pain, Disappointment

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

  Viktor E. Frankl

  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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• Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Sunday, People, Neurosis

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Fate, Men

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

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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.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Ministry, Berlin, Lectures

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

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• Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Chaos, Stimulus And Response, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.136, Beacon Press

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• What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Past, Reality, Thinking

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.94, Beacon Press

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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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• Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

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  Life, Love Is, Men

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

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• As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Thinking, Guilt, Behavior

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.145, Beacon Press

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• Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Worst Situation, Goal, Challenges

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• Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Motivation, Men, Chiefs

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• As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor in two fields I am a survivor of four camps - concentration camps, that is - and as such I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

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  Men, Two, Survivor

  Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Fate, Fighting, Animal

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

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• It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away -
  that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

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  Meaningful, Spiritual, Taken

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.56, Beacon Press

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• Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

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  Men, Existence, Find Me

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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.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Giving, Causes, Self Actualization

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• Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features.

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  Love, Essence, Personality

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

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• The last freedom is choosing your attitude.

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  Attitude, Lasts

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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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• 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.

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  World, Venture, Helping

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.105, Beacon Press

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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.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition".

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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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• I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Tasks, Pleasant

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