Austrian - Psychologist | March 26, 1905 - September 2, 1997
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor E. Frankl
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
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When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
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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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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
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Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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