"Just as a small fire is extinguished by……" — Viktor E. Frankl
"Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them."
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Viktor E. Frankl
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176 Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor E. Frankl has 176 quotes on this site.
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Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was…
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The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
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When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his…
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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the…
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a…
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can…
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The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love -…
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's…
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end…
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have…
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I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that…
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
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Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe…
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As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to…
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Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves…
— John Playfair
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