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What is to give light must endure burning.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Viktor E. Frankl
Age: 92 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 2
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.
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Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.
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