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Viktor E. Frankl

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About Viktor E. Frankl

Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories.

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Topics: Life Attitude Change Fear Freedom Power
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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.
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 li…
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, ev…
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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Everything can be taken from a man 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.