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Posted on Oct 15, 2008 under Austrian neurologist, Existential Analysis, Founder of Logotherapy, Holocaust survivor, Man's Search for Meaning, Psychiatrist, V, Viktor E. Frankl | No CommentViktor E. Frankl’s Love Quote and Sayings
1. The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Viktor Emil Frankl M.D., Ph.D. (March 26, 1905 – September 2, 1997) 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”.
His best-selling book, Man’s Search for Meaning (published under a different title in 1959: From Death-Camp to Existentialism, and originally published in 1946 as trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager), chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus a reason to continue living. Frankl was one of the key figures in existential therapy.
1. 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.
2. Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
3. 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.
4. Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
5. 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.
6. Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
7. 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.
8. Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
9. Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
10. The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.
11. Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
12. When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
13. What is to give light must endure burning.
Viktor E. Frankl related posts in Blog:
The Meaning of Life
Everything Happened for a Reason
Viktor E. Frankl’s Book:
Man’s Search for Meaning. Now in its 60th year — the landmark bestseller by the great Viennese psychiatrist remembered for his tremendous impact on humanity Internationally renowned psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps.
During, and partly because of, his suffering, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy. At the core of his theory is the belief that man’s primary motivational force is his search for meaning. Cited in Dr. Frankl’s New York Times obituary in 1997 as “an enduring work of survival literature,” Man’s Search for Meaning is more than the story of Viktor E. Frankl’s triumph: It is a remarkable blend of science and humanism and “a compelling introduction to the most significant psychological movement of our day” (Gordon W. Allport).
