Viktor E. Frankl Quotes - Page 7

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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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• It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'

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  Here I Am, Said, Eternal Life

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.58, Beacon Press

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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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• No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

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  Freedom To Choose

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• To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.

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  Pursuit Of Happiness, Lasts, Culture

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.106, Beacon Press

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• Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

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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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• Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.

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  Sports, Artist, People

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• Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.

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  Long, Encounters, Existential

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

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• Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

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  Motivational, Expression, Challenges

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.30, Souvenir Press

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• Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

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  Sports, Sacrifice, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

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  Fear, May

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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!

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  Gratitude, Pain, Disappointment

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• Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision ... we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.

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  Giving, Decision, Faces

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• To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.

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  Men, Soul, Mind

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

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• It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to
  the future...And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments
  of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to
  the task.

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  Men, Mind, Tasks

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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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• I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

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  Responsibility, Liberty, West

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.

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  Beautiful, Death, Symphony

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• When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves

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  Predicaments, Capable

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• Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a
  hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond
  himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.

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  Inspirational, Fate, Challenges

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.142, Beacon Press

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• What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

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  Men, Bears, Philosopher

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.118, Beacon Press

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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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  Doe, Way, Realizing

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

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• We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

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  Live In The Moment, Matter, Moments

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• Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Responsibility

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.

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  Taken, Men, Execution

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