Viktor E. Frankl Quotes - Page 5

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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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  Life, Change, Happiness

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

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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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  Rise Above, Well Known, Life Altering

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.51, Beacon Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

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  Happiness, Pursuit Of Happiness, Pursuit

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• One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

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  Freedom, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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• What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.

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  Life, Attitude, Learning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.82, Beacon Press

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• Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

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  Inspirational, Life, Goal

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• A human being is a deciding being.

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  Inspirational, Choices, Thrive

  "Man's Search for Meaning". Book by Viktor E. Frankl, www.cnn.com. 1946.

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• The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

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  Angel, Infinite, Glory

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

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• For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

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  Doe, World, States

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.

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  Attitude, Men, Ultimate Freedom

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• Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

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  Successful, Giving, Suffering

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Mean, Responsibility, Growth

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.82, Beacon Press

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• A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

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  Years, Joy, And Love

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• Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

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  Spiritual, Men, Effort

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.40, Souvenir Press

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• I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

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  Men, Understanding, Suffering

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

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• The salvation of man is through love and in love.

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  Love, Life, Men

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

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• At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

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  Men, Moments, Existence

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

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  Inspirational, Essence, Beloved Person

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