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The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.
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I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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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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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.
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Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts.
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As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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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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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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