Author of quotes: Viktor Frankl

Happiness is a side effect of a well organized life.

The quality of our life is determined by how we relate to realities, what meaning we attribute to them, how we relate to them, what state of mind they create for us.

Being is incomplete and unstable if it does not carry in itself the desire for something outside of it.

rationalization of instinctive drives, this is the main motivational force in a person.

To be human means not being limited by what you are, it means always going beyond the person himself.

To accept a limb is to create conditions for mental health and human progress, while the inability to accept it is a trait of a neurotic personality.

Freedom is always the freedom of choice of position that a person occupies, when faced with his fate.

People forget about the need to create conditions for happiness, if he is fully focused on the feeling of happiness and satisfaction. Rights was Kierkegaard when he said that the door to happiness opens outward, and therefore to break it is useless.

In the era of Freud the cause of all ills was considered to be sexual dissatisfaction, and now we are concerned about another problem is the disappointment in life. If during the Adler typical patient suffered from an inferiority complex, in our days, the patients complain mostly on a sense of inner emptiness that arises from a feeling of absolute meaninglessness of life. That's what I call an existential vacuum.

From this we can conclude that there are two "races" of people, only two! people are honest and dishonest people. Both of these "races" are common everywhere, and no human group is not exclusively good, or exclusively from dishonest; in this sense, no group has the "racial purity!"

As a Professor in two fields - neurology and psychiatry - I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and social conditions. But besides that I am a Professor in two fields of medicine, I'm also a person who survived four camps - concentration camps - and as such can testify to what an incredible extent the person is able not to give in and bravely to withstand even the worst of imaginable conditions.

In the end it turns out that what is happening inside a person, that the camp of it supposedly "does", the result of an inner decision the individual. In principle, every human being, depends, that, even under the pressure of such terrible circumstances that will happen in the camp with him, with his inner, spiritual essence: turn it into a "typical" prisoner's or stay here and man, will retain his human dignity.

Conscience can be defined as the intuitive ability of a person to find the meaning of the situation.

Freedom, if its implementation does not entail responsibility, threatens to degenerate into a simple tyranny.