Viktor Frankl

1905 – 1997 · Psychiatrist, Holocaust Survivor, Author

Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and Dachau, stripped of everything. He discovered the one thing that could not be taken: the ability to choose his response. He wrote Man's Search for Meaning in nine days. It has sold over sixteen million copies.

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VIR-III-0020“I cut corners on something and now I have to live with the result.”DTH-XI-0011“I'm helping a friend through their grief and I don't know what to say.”DTH-XI-0019“I held someone's hand while they were dying and I don't know how to carry that.”DTH-XI-0020“The marriage is over and I'm grieving someone who's still alive.”DTH-XI-0022“It's been a year and the grief just knocked me flat again.”APX-V-0023“I told a friend a hard truth and it pulled them back from a cliff.”APX-V-0024“My aging parent is fragile now and I've become the one who shields them.”APX-V-0030“My child is hurting from something I have no power to fix.”DTH-X-0028“My first child was just born and time feels different now.”DTH-XI-0023“My father and I made peace after years of silence.”DTH-XII-0030“I started teaching what I know and it feels like the actual point.”DTH-X-0036“I have a friendship so real it makes me grateful to be alive.”

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