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" Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. "

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" Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others. "

Viktor E. Frankl

Acting

Love

Meaning

" For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. "

" Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. "

" A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him. "

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

Viktor E. Frankl

People

Meaning

" Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. "

" When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. "

" Faith is trust in ultimate meaning. "

" When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in. "

Viktor E. Frankl

Ready

Desire

" A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. "

" Religion is the search for ultimate meaning. "

Viktor E. Frankl

Ultimate

Meaning

" A human being is a deciding being. "

" 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. "

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

" I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. "

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

" A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.' "

" If there is a 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. "

" To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' "

" Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. "

" If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really. "

Viktor E. Frankl

Man

Feel

" Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time. "

" In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment. "

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

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

" Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. "

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

" Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. "

" Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. "

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