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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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. . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was dead, I think that I still would have given myself, undisturbed by that knowledge, to the contemplation of that image, and that my mental conversation with her would have been just as vivid and just as satisfying. "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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Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

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Stress, Sleep, Decision

Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.69, Beacon Press

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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

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Men, May, Dignity

Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.72, Beacon Press

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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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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision ... we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.

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Giving, Decision, Faces

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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.

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Attitude, Lasts, Circumstances

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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.

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Motivation, Find Me, Meaning Life

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

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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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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

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Men, Bears, Philosopher

Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.118, Beacon Press

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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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The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.

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Fear, Men, Feelings

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.74, Beacon Press

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Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.

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Past, Men, Joy

Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: Young Adult Edition: Young Adult Edition”, p.119, Beacon Press

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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to
the future...And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments
of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to
the task.

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Men, Mind, Tasks

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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.

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Men, Looking To The Future, Mans Search For Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.60, Beacon Press

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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.

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Long, Encounters, Existential

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

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A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

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Men, Goal, Able

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.58, Beacon Press

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I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

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Men, World, May

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

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In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.

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Taken, Men, Execution

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A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

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Mean, Men, Despair

Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.104, Beacon Press

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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

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Firsts, Machines, Patient

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

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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

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Humanity, Existential, Psychotherapy

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

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The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

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Meaningful, Struggle, Able

Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.102, Souvenir Press

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Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

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Men, Lasts, Given

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...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

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Thinking, Meditation, Answers

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.63, Beacon Press

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