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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

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Suffering, Heroic, Masochistic

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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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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.

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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!

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Gratitude, Pain, Disappointment

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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

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Life, Suffering, Different

Viktor E. Frankl (1964). “Man S Search For Meaning”, p.101, Ratna Sagar

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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.

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Important

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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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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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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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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.

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Thinking, Guilt, Behavior

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

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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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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.

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Giving, Causes, Self Actualization

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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.

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Earth, Mans Search For Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.67, 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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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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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 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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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

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Tasks, Pleasant

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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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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

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Happiness, Pursuit Of Happiness, Pursuit

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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.

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Beloved, Mans Search For Meaning, Search For Meaning

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

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

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Men, Existence, Find Me

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Born: March 26, 1905
Died: September 2, 1997
Occupation: M.D.
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