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7/31/2019 VIKTOR FRANKL QUOTES

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Viktor E. Frankl quotes ()From:http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2782.Viktor_E_Frankl

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: motivation

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likeEverything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedomsto choose onesattitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones own way.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: inspirational,motivational

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likeThe one thing you cant take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. Thelast of ones freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.Viktor E. Frankl164 people liked it

likeDon't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintendedside effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one'ssurrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success:you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience com-mands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see thatin the long-runin the long-run, I say!success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten tothink about itViktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: happiness,success

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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest ofcourage, the courage to suffer.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning
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likeUltimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is hewho is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answeringfor his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning124 people liked it

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What is to give light must endure burning.Viktor E. Frankl117 people liked it

likeLove is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No onecan become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love heis enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees thatwhich is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, byhis love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making himaware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning113 people liked it

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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.Viktor E. Frankl97 people liked it

likeIn some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaningof a sacrifice.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning96 people liked it

likeForces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom tochoose how you will respond to the situation.Viktor E. Frankl95 people liked it

likeSo live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time aswrongly as you are about to act now!Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning
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likeIt did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We neededto stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were beingquestioned by lifedaily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in rightaction and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer toits problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: inspirational

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likeFor the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as thefinal wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which mancan aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thoughtand belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning86 people liked it

likeAn abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: abnormal,frankl,meaning,viktor

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likeWe who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comfort-ing others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offersufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human free-doms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.Viktor E. Frankltags: attitude

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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: inspirational,psychology

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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.Viktor E. Frankl70 people liked it

likeBetween stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.In our response lies our growth and our freedom.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning68 people liked it

likeI do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: frankl,good,grudge,life,meaning,viktor

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likeThose who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: nietzsche

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

Viktor E. Frankl,The Doctor And The Soultags: death, life

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likeThe pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, fromwhich he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person whoattacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendarand files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diarynotes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set down in these notes, on allthe life he has already lived to the fullest. What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growingold? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lostyouth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, thefuture which is in store for him?

No, thank you,' he will think. 'Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality ofwork done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things ofwhich I am most proud, although these are things which cannot inspire envy.' "

From "Logotherapy in a Nutshell", an essayViktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: inspirational,reflection

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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimatelyself-determining. What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment- he has madeout of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testingground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved likesaints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions butnot on conditions.

Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning44 people liked itlikeBy declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish tostress that the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his ownpsyche, as though it were a closed system. I have termed this constitutive characteristic "the self-tran-scendence of human existence." It denotes the fact that being human always points, and is directed, tosomething or someone, other than oneself--be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to en-counter. The more one forgets himself--by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person tolove--the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is notan attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he wouldmiss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning

tags: inspirational,psychology44 people liked it

likeThe attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a tricklearned while mastering the art of living.Viktor E. Frankltags: humor,meaning

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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiri-tual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all,ceases somehow to be of importance.Viktor E. Frankl38 people liked it

likeIf there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.Viktor E. Frankltags: meaning-of-life

37 people liked it

likeIt is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning36 people liked it
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionate-ly waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the"why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how".Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning35 people liked it

likeIronically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced in-tention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags:psychology

30 people liked it

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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.Viktor E. Frankl29 people liked it

likeWhat man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for somegoal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a poten-tial meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Viktor E. Frankl27 people liked it

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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in toconditions or stands up to them.Viktor E. Frankl27 people liked it

likeFor what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is totransform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn ones predicament into a human achievement.Viktor E. Frankl25 people liked it

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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation hemight not have done the same.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning
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7/22

24 people liked it

likeFor the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does hisbest.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: inspirational

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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.Viktor E. Frankl23 people liked it

likeA man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by nomeans a mental disease.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: inspirational,psychology

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

Viktor E. Frankl22 people liked itlike

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsib-lity on the West Coast.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning21 people liked it

likeWhat is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaningless-ness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaninglessness in rationalterms.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: inspirational,psychology
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8/22

21 people liked it

likeOur generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that beingwho invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gaschambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.Viktor E. Frankltags: frankl,man,man-s-search-for-meaning,realistic,viktor

21 people liked it

likeEven though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may sug-gest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear thatthe sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of campinfluences alone.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: decisions

20 people liked it

likeFear makes come true that which one is afraid of...Viktor E. Frankl19 people liked it

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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assign-ment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, ev-eryone's task is unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags:purpose-in-life,raison-d-tre

19 people liked it

likeThe crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all hehas suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymoreexcept his God.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning19 people liked it

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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

Viktor E. Frankl18 people liked itlikeTo the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is com-manded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have areason 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 situa-tion.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: happiness,inspirational,life,meaning

17 people liked it

likeAs each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, thequestion of the meaning of life may actually be reversed. Ultimately, man should not ask what themeaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man isquestioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only re-spond by being responsible. Thus, logotherapy sees in responsibleness the very essence of human ex-istence.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags:human-existence,inspirational,life,logotherapy,meaning,responsibility

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And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: inspirational

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But todays society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores peoplewho are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value ofall those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable inthe sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. If one is not cognizant of this differ-ence and holds that an individuals value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me,one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitlers pro-gram, that is to say, mercy killing of all those who have lost their social usefulness, be it because ofold age, incurable illness, mental deterioration, or whatever handicap they may suffer. Confoundingthe dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from conceptual confusion that in turn may be tracedback to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analyticalcouch.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: dignity, existentialism,human-dignity,meaning,nihilism,usefulness

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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become thenext moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning12 people liked it

likeTo draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas ispumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big thechamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether thesuffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning
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likeDostoevski said once, "There is only one thing I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings." Thesewords frequently came to my mind after I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior incamp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost. Itcan be said that they were worthy of the their sufferings; the way they bore their suffering was a gen-uine inner achievement. It is this spiritual freedomwhich cannot be taken awaythat makes lifemeaningful and purposeful.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning12 people liked it

likeMan is originally characterized by his "search for meaning" rather than his "search for himself." Themore he forgets himselfgiving himself to a cause or another personthe more human he is. And themore he is immersed and absorbed in something or someone other than himself the more he reallybecomes himself. p.85Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search For Ultimate Meaningtags: logotherapy,man,meaning,self

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likeThere are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to loseViktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning11 people liked it

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...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneselfbe itmeaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himselfby giving him-self to a cause to serve or another person to lovethe more human he is and the more he actualizeshimself.... What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason thatthe more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possi-ble only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning11 people liked it

likeUltimate meaning necessarily exceeds and surpasses the finite intellectual capacities of man... Whatis 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. Lo-gos is deeper than logic.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning10 people liked it

likeIt is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning10 people liked it

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As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man issubject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor intwo fields I am a survivor of four camps - concentration camps, that is - and as such I also bear wit-ness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst condi-tions conceivable.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning9 people liked it

likeUsually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full gra-naries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings.Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surestkind of being.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning9 people liked it

likeI understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a briefmoment, in the contemplation of his beloved.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: life,love

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The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: inspirational-attitude

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likeWoe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carryingon.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning9 people liked it

likeThere are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mecha-nisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merelyfor the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reac-

tion formations.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning9 people liked it

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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to con-demn.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning
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likeTo be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. How-ever, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in theworld, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as theknowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "Hewho has a why to live for can bear almost any howViktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning8 people liked it

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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider itennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhap-py.Viktor E. Frankltags:psychology

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likeSince Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning7 people liked it

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The last of human freedoms - the ability to choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.Viktor E. Frankl7 people liked it

likeMan is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the betterif necessary.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning7 people liked it

likeAt the beginning of human history, man lost some of the basic animal instincts in which an animal'sbehavior is embedded and by which it is secured. Such security, like paradise, is closed to man forev-er; man has to make choices. In addition to this, however, man has suffered another loss in his morerecent development inasmuch as the traditions which buttressed his behavior are now rapidly dimin-

ishing. No instinct tells him what he has to do, and no tradition tells him what he ought to do; some-times he does not even know what he wishes to do. Instead, he either wishes to do what other peopledo (conformism) or he does what other people tell him to do (totalitarianism).Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: existentialism

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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofnessand an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning6 people liked it

likeThe way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes uphis cross, gives him ample opportunity even under the most difficult circumstances to add adeeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for selfpreservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animalViktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning6 people liked it

likeLove goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.Viktor E. Frankltags: love

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likeIf there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradica-ble part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning5 people liked it

likeJust consider a child who, absorbed in play, forgets himselfthis is the moment to take a snapshot;when you wait until he notices that you are taking a picture, his face congeals and freezes, showing hisunnatural self-consciousness rather than his natural graciousness. Why do most people have thatstereotyped expression on their faces whenever they are photographed? This expression stems fromtheir concern with the impression they are going to leave on the onlooker. It is "cheese" that makesthem so ugly. Forgetting themselves, the photographer, and the future onlooker would make thembeautiful.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning5 people liked it

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in life.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: history

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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever morepeople have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.Viktor E. Frankltags: life,life-purpose

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likeCan you tell me in one sentence what is meant by logotherapy?" he asked. "At least, what is the dif-ference between psychoanalysis and logotherapy?" "Yes," I said, "but in the first place, can you tell mein one sentence what you think the essence of psychoanalysis is?" This was his answer: "During psy-choanalysis, the patient must lie down on a couch and tell you things which sometimes are very dis-agreeable to tell." Whereupon I immediately retorted with the following improvisation: "Now, in lo-gotherapy the patient may remain sitting erect but he must hear things which sometimes are very dis-agreeable to hear.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning4 people liked it

likeAs for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one personresponsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning4 people liked it

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The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our re-sponsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: inspirational,psychology

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likeA life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than alife lasting eighty years.Viktor E. Frankltags: life,meaning-of-life

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does a man who makes his observations while he himself is a prisoner possess the necessary detach-

ment? Such detachment is granted to the outsider, but he is too far removed to make any statementsof real value. Only the man inside knows. His judgments may not be objective; his evaluations may beout of proportion. This is inevitable. An attempt must be made to avoid any personal bias, and that isthe real difficulty...Viktor E. Frankl4 people liked it

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Thus it can be seen that mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension betweenwhat one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one isand what one should become. Such a tension is inherent in the human being and therefore is indis-pensable to mental well-being. We should not, then, be hesitant about challenging man with a poten-tial meaning for him to fulfill. It is only thus that we evoke his will to meaning from its state of latency.I consider it a dangerous misconception of mental hygiene to assume that what man needs in the firstplace is equilibrium or, as it is called in biology "homeostasis", i.e., a tensionless state. What man ac-

tually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, afreely chosen task. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost but the call of a potentialmeaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning4 people liked it

likeThe question was whether an ape which was being used to develop a poliomyelitis serum, and for thisreason punctured again and again, would ever be able to grasp the meaning of its suffering. Unani-mously, the group replied that of course it would not; with its limited intelligence, it could not enterinto the world of man, i.e., the only world in which the meaning of its suffering would be understand-able. Then I pushed forward with the following question: And what about man? Are you sure that thethe human world is a terminal point in the evolution of the cosmos? Is it not conceivable that there isstill another dimension, a world beyond mans world; a world in which the question of an ultimate

meaning of human suffering would find an answer?Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaningtags: meaning,suffering

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likeBecause of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus theindividual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life.Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the existential vacuum feeling inner void.Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide.Viktor E. Frankltags: meaning-in-life

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We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not real-ly matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We need to stop askingabout the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifehourly and daily. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and inright conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answers to its problemsand to fulfill the task which it constantly sets for each individual.Viktor E. Frankltags: counseling,existentialism,holocaust,man-s-search-for-meaning

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likeFundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become ofhimmentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.Viktor E. Frankl,Man's Search for Meaning

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