"One of the chief responsibilities laid upon the shoulders of man, be he young or old, is the responsibility of conserving his moral, mental and physical resources and making the best possible use of them." Paul P. Harris, Page 125 from “The Founder of Rotary”, 1928, complete and online at http://www.whatpaulharriswrote.org/library/founder/book

MY COMMENT:

(C) Imagno / K. Vesely To discover, to give full care and feel responsible for our own gifts and values and to make the best of it was also the central theme of one of the greatest psychiatrists of the last century, Viktor Frankl (26.3.1905 - 2.9.1997) for whom I always had the highest admiration.

Frankl, as Prof. Dr. George Kovacs from Florida International University described him, was a thinker for Hard Times and in fact one of the great thinkers of his century; he was able and had the courage to grasp and see through the shocking, tragic events of our times, to look for the future, to decreed meaning in being, in living even again the odds. He was deeply shaken by Auschwitz and by Hiroshima; in the depth of human degradation and in the pervasiveness of despair, he found an opening for a vision intuiting possibilities for meaning and being, for hope and goodness against the forces of monstrous evil, against the seductive powers of scepticism, and despair.