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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

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Men, Giving, Determined

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.100, Beacon Press

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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

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Running, Thinking, Long

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.8, Beacon Press

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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

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Goal, Wish, Sides

Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.122, 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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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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

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Spiritual, Men, Effort

Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.40, Souvenir 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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A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

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Years, Joy, And Love

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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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Mom, Attitude, Parent

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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

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Tasks, Pleasant

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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

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Sleep, Hands, Long

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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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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

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Inspirational Life, Wish, Together

"Man's Search For Meaning".

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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

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Spiritual, Artist, Creative

Viktor E. Frankl (2000). “Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning”, Basic Books

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Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.

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Strong, Heart, Love Is

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.36, Beacon 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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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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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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[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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I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.

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Knowing, Trying, Done

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In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness.

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Morning, Light, Darkness

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

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Life, Book, Writing

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.8, Beacon Press

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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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Men, Politics, Stakes

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

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It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away -
that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

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Meaningful, Spiritual, Taken

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.56, Beacon Press

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Born: March 26, 1905
Died: September 2, 1997
Occupation: M.D.
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