Viktor E. Frankl Quotes - Page 5

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• Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

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  Successful, Giving, Suffering

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.136, Beacon Press

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• Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.

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  Beloved, Mans Search For Meaning, Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.36, Beacon Press

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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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  Hurt, Children, Pain

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.25, Beacon Press

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• Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.

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  Friendship, Loss, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

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  Prayer, Men, Our Generation

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

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  Life, Suffering, Different

  Viktor E. Frankl (1964). “Man S Search For Meaning”, p.101, Ratna Sagar

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• Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

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  Men, Doe, Next

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.129, Beacon Press

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• What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.

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  Earth, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

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  Inspirational, Essence, Beloved Person

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.87, Beacon Press

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• For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

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  Doe, World, States

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.

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  Dream, Sorry, Sleep

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

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  Goal, Psychology, Unintended Consequences

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• For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

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  Achievement, Tragedy, Triumph

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.87, Beacon Press

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• The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

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  Angel, Infinite, Glory

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features.

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  Love, Essence, Personality

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.87, Beacon Press

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• And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

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  Bodybuilding, Stronger, Doe

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.

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  Past, Reality, Envy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.94, Beacon Press

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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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  World, Venture, Helping

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.105, Beacon Press

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• [Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.

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  Men, Goal, Inner Strength

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• Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

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  Inspirational, Life, Goal

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• A human being is a deciding being.

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  Inspirational, Choices, Thrive

  "Man's Search for Meaning". Book by Viktor E. Frankl, www.cnn.com. 1946.

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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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  Kindness, Groups, Would Be

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Thinking, Guilt, Behavior

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.145, Beacon Press

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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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  Teaching, Learning, Men

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.11, Souvenir Press

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• There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.

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  Race, Two, Decent

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