Viktor Emil Frankl Quotes

• Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

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• I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

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

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  Tags in Personality

• 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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  Tags in Questioning, Mankind

• The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitudes.

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  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Freedoms

• 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.

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

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• Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

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  Tags in Time, Lives

• Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

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  Tags in Just

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

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

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• Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

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• A human being is a deciding being.

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• What is to give light must endure burning.

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  Tags in Give, Endure

• Between 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.

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  Tags in Lies, Choose

• For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in People, Moment

• Everything can be taken from a man but … 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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  Topics in Attitude, Inspirational

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Freedom

• If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients’ mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one’s life.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Meaning

• Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

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• A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately 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.”

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  Topics in Expectations, Ideals, Life, Love

  Tags in Responsibility, Duty, Purpose, Meaning

Viktor Emil Frankl (22)

Birth:	26th March, 1905
Death:	2nd September, 1997
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Neurologist, Psychiatrist

About

Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of existential analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy".

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