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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Viktor E. Frankl
Age: 92 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 2
Existential Therapist
Neurologist
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Psychologist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children) it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.
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I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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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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But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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Happiness cannot be pursued it must ensue.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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