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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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.”DTH-X-0028“My first child was just born and time feels different now.”DTH-X-0036“I have a friendship so real it makes me grateful to be alive.”DTH-XII-0034“I wrote letters for my kids to open after I'm gone.”DTH-XI-0028“Someone I cared for thanked me right before the end.”DTH-XI-0030“I'm watching my parent disappear into dementia a piece at a time.”DTH-X-0049“It's the anniversary of the day I almost died and I feel hollow, not grateful.”DTH-XI-0040“I lived through the crash and others didn't and I can't carry it.”DTH-XI-0042“I'm so alone that some nights it feels like practice for dying.”DTH-XI-0048“I'm furious at the universe for taking them and I can't pray anymore.”

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