{"author":"Viktor E. Frankl","author_id":"Viktor+E.+Frankl","total_quotes":104,"quotes":[{"text":"A man's suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative.","author":"Viktor E. Frankl","tags":["relativity","suffering"],"id":4009,"author_id":"Viktor+E.+Frankl"},{"text":"Was Du erlebst, kann keine Macht der Welt Dir rauben. (What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.) Not only our experiences, but all we have done, whatever great thoughts we may have had and all we have suffered, all this is not lost, though it is past; we have brought it into being. Having been is a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.","author":"Viktor E. Frankl","tags":["inspirational","meaning"],"id":16444,"author_id":"Viktor+E.+Frankl"},{"text":"We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.","author":"Viktor E. Frankl","tags":["death","life"],"id":23291,"author_id":"Viktor+E.+Frankl"},{"text":"Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.","author":"Viktor E. Frankl","tags":["frankl","man","man-s-search-for-meaning","realistic","viktor"],"id":25119,"author_id":"Viktor+E.+Frankl"},{"text":"For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.","author":"Viktor E. Frankl","tags":["inspirational"],"id":25457,"author_id":"Viktor+E.+Frankl"},{"text":"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.","author":"Viktor E. Frankl","tags":["behaviour","conscientiousness","frankl","freedom","growth","impulse","response","stimulus"],"id":25752,"author_id":"Viktor+E.+Frankl"},{"text":"A man who could not see the end of his'provisional existence' was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.","author":"Viktor E. Frankl","tags":["history"],"id":29839,"author_id":"Viktor+E.+Frankl"},{"text":"When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an inoperable cancer - we are challenged to change ourselves.","author":"Viktor E. Frankl","tags":["situation","think","cancer "],"id":61103,"author_id":"Viktor+E.+Frankl"},{"text":"I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.","author":"Viktor E. Frankl","tags":["concentration-camp","dream","prison"],"id":62183,"author_id":"Viktor+E.+Frankl"},{"text":"Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.","author":"Viktor E. Frankl","tags":["psychology"],"id":64409,"author_id":"Viktor+E.+Frankl"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":104,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}