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Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who survived the Nazi concentration camps. He founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that sees the search for meaning as the central human motivation, and described his camp experiences in Man's Search for Meaning (1946).
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“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.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning (1946; English tr. 1959), tr. Ilse Lasch; checked in an Internet Archive scan of the English edition (punctuation corrected to match it)Echoes The Buddha, Dhammapada 1: “All that we are is the result of what we have thought”Watch on YouTube: Lori Gottlieb: How changing your story can change your life ↗Lori Gottlieb discusses the stories we tell ourselves (TED)