Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation."
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Mans Search For Meaning
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Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering."
Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected."
Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life."
Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue."
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"What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you."
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"Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved."
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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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"It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future."
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