One of the most influential people I have read about is Dr. Viktor Frankl (March 26, 1905, Leopoldstadt – September 2, 1997, Vienna) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist.
He was one of those very few souls who survived the Holocaust! After his grueling experience in the concentration camp of Hitler, he came out of it, victorious and started a new field of psychiatry known as "Logotherapy" (A therapy in which the patient is helped in finding meaning out of his life). I always remind myself, if a human being can craft the heinous concentration camp to a real life workshop for his research on a world transforming new discipline of psychiatry, any human can make best of what life has to offer to her.
Few of my favorite musings of Victor in his book - "Man's Search for Meaning"
1. Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
2. I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast. (He was mentioning on the importance of "responsibility" and "ethics", over "freedom" and "liberty")
3. Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
4. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom
5. Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
6. Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
7. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
8. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves
9. What is to give light must endure burning.
10. Love is the only way to grasp another humanb being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and deatures in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.
11. Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue..as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself
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He was one of those very few souls who survived the Holocaust! After his grueling experience in the concentration camp of Hitler, he came out of it, victorious and started a new field of psychiatry known as "Logotherapy" (A therapy in which the patient is helped in finding meaning out of his life). I always remind myself, if a human being can craft the heinous concentration camp to a real life workshop for his research on a world transforming new discipline of psychiatry, any human can make best of what life has to offer to her.
Few of my favorite musings of Victor in his book - "Man's Search for Meaning"
1. Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
2. I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast. (He was mentioning on the importance of "responsibility" and "ethics", over "freedom" and "liberty")
3. Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
4. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom
5. Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
6. Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
7. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
8. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves
9. What is to give light must endure burning.
10. Love is the only way to grasp another humanb being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and deatures in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.
11. Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue..as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself
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I feel point 2 would indicate 'responsibility along with freedom' and not 'responsibility over freedom' (this can give a dangerous meaning)...
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