Viktor E. Frankl Quotes - Page 5

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• The last freedom is choosing your attitude.

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  Attitude, Lasts

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

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  Attitude, Men, Ultimate Freedom

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

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  Running, Thinking, Long

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.8, 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.

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  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

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

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• In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness.

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  Morning, Light, Darkness

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

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