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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Viktor E. Frankl
Age: 92 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 2
Existential Therapist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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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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