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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

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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.

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

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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.'

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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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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

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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.

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A human being is a deciding being.

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

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 26th, 1905

Died: September 2nd, 1997

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