Viktor E. Frankl Quotes - Page 8

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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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• I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

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  Men, World, May

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

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• Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

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  Men, May, Dignity

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.72, Beacon Press

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• A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

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  Mean, Men, Despair

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.104, Beacon Press

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• Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

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  Men, World, Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.129, Beacon Press

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• Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

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  Men, Lasts, Given

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• Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

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  Humanity, Existential, Psychotherapy

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

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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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• . . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was dead, I think that I still would have given myself, undisturbed by that knowledge, to the contemplation of that image, and that my mental conversation with her would have been just as vivid and just as satisfying. "Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death."

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  Strong, Heart, Love Is

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

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• Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

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  Unhappy, Might, Facts

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

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  Men, Goal, Able

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

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• But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.

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  Real, Wife, Mind

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

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• It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

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  Mans Search For Meaning, Search For Meaning, Conditions

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

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  Stress, Sleep, Decision

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.69, Beacon Press

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• It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

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  Firsts, Machines, Patient

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

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• Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

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  Pursued

  Viktor E Frankl (2011). “Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning”, p.90, Random House

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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.

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  Men, Self, Limits

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.

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  Talking, Explanation, Needed

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.13, Beacon Press

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• The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

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  Meaningful, Struggle, Able

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.102, Souvenir Press

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• The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.

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  Opportunity, Suffering, Unhappy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• 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, Bears, Neurology

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.

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  Men, Looking To The Future, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.60, Beacon Press

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• Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.

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  Motivation, Find Me, Meaning Life

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

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• A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Mentor

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• Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

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  Purpose, Woe, Carrying On

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

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