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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

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Fate, Suffering And Death, Meaning Of Life

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

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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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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.

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Gratitude, Attitude, Lasts

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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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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

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Men, Challenges, Meaning Of Life

Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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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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I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

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Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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

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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a
hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond
himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.

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Inspirational, Fate, Challenges

Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.142, 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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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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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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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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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

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Men, Moments, Existence

Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.120, Beacon Press

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

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Race, Two, Decent

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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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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.

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Beautiful, Death, Symphony

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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.

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Love, Life, Men

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

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Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!

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Gratitude, Pain, Disappointment

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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.

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Important

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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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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

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Freedom To Choose

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