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Man's Search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization'...
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Our generation is realistic for we have come to know man as he really is.
After all, man is that ...
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What is to give light must endure the burning.
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Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopel...
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A human being is a deciding being.
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It is reserved for man alone to find his very existence questionable, to experience the whole dubiou...
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a ...
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting othe...
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coa...
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he trul...
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for t...
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters...
VICTOR FRANKL

We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting ...
VICTOR FRANKL

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coa...
VICTOR FRANKL Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly...
VIKTOR FRANKL The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
VIKTOR FRANKL Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to lif...
VIKTOR FRANKL We came to meadows full of flowers. We saw and realized that they were there, but we had no feelings...
VIKTOR FRANKL I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to ...
VIKTOR FRANKL Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss i...
VIKTOR FRANKL Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that be...
VIKTOR FRANKL A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately w...
VIKTOR FRANKL The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The...
VIKTOR FRANKL Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.'
VIKTOR FRANKL Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it...
VIKTOR FRANKL Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
VIKTOR FRANKL Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
VIKTOR FRANKL Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. It must ensue. And it only does so as the unintended sid...
VIKTOR FRANKL Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
VIKTOR FRANKL The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes
VIKTOR FRANKL Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
VIKTOR FRANKL Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assign...
VIKTOR FRANKL Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life . . . Therein he cannot be replaced, nor c...
VIKTOR FRANKL ‎You excuse me, but I know a way of speaking marvelous accent without a slightest English.
VIKTOR FRANKL Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
VIKTOR FRANKL What is to give light must endure burning.
VIKTOR FRANKL We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting othe...
VIKTOR FRANKL A human being is a deciding being.
VIKTOR FRANKL Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one c...
VIKTOR FRANKL Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
VIKTOR FRANKL Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is...
VIKTOR FRANKL When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
VIKTOR FRANKL The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
VIKTOR FRANKL Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ine...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to en...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting othe...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so compr...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

A human being is a deciding being.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

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

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's ...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a me...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

A man's suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an ...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

إن رد الفعل غير السوي إزاء موقف غير سوي هو استجابة سوية
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s...
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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by...
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assign...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his b...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessnes...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsiblit...
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self...
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the nex...
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To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of ...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his sp...
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By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to...
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately w...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which ...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he mig...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We neede...
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For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as...
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So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as ...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning ...
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is...
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one c...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of ...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting othe...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is comman...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coa...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. I...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's a...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately w...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an ino...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffe...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

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

When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication ...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who ent...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assign...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to lif...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that be...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more pe...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Ever more people today have the means to live,
but no meaning to live for.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may sugg...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Sigmund Freud once asserted, "Let one attempt to expose a number of the most diverse people uniforml...
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By [anticipatory anxiety] I mean that the patient reacts to an event with a fearful expectation of i...
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In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably s...
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even ...
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to con...
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

No one has the right to do wrong, even if wrong has been done to them.
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We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not real...
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He main retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Dostoevsky said once, 'There is only ...
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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 ...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to ch...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

For too long a time--for half a century, in fact--psychiatry tried to interpret the human mind merel...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

I refer to what is called mysterium iniquitatis, meaning, as I see it, that a crime in the final ana...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

U čoveku se kriju obe mogućnosti: svinja i svetac. Šta će neko ostvariti zavisi od njegovih odlu...
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إن الانفعال، و هو في جوهره معاناة، يتوقف عن أن يكون انف�...
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إن الإنسان إذا وجد في حياته معنى أو هدفاً، فإن معنى ذلك ...
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Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering i...
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We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside,...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes ...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is comman...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

en realidad no importa que no esperemos nada de la vida, sino que la vida espere algo de nosotros. D...
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Questions about the meaning of life can never be answered by sweeping statements. “Life” does no...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

وقفنا خارج الكوخ, وأبصرنا السحب تتقد في الغروب, والسماء...
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Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is o...
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Frankl approvingly quotes the words of Nietzsche: “He who has a Why to live for can bear almost an...
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هناك مواقف قد يٌحرم فيها الإنسان من فرصة مزاولته لعمله ...
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los autores coinciden en señalar que el número de no-judíos muertos es superior al de los judíos...
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from a conceptual confusion that in turn ...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Shortly before the United States entered World War II, I received an invitation to come to the Ameri...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

But one thing I beg of you”; he continued, “shave daily, if at all possible, even if you have to...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGO

No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
VICTOR HUGO

A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
VICTOR HUGO

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
VICTOR HUGO

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
VICTOR HUGO

A war between Europeans is a civil war.
VICTOR HUGO

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ...
VICTOR HUGO

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
VICTOR HUGO

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
VICTOR HUGO

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
VICTOR HUGO

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
VICTOR HUGO

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even t...
VICTOR HUGO

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman...
VICTOR HUGO

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
VICTOR HUGO

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that...
VICTOR HUGO

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
VICTOR HUGO

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
VICTOR HUGO

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes...
VICTOR HUGO

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst...
VICTOR HUGO

To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
VICTOR HUGO

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...
VICTOR HUGO

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
VICTOR HUGO

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO

To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

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