“The meaning of your life is to help others find the meaning of theirs.” — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.' — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in this world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“It is one of the basic tenets of logotherapy that man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“According to logotherapy, we can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“The second way of finding a meaning in life is by experiencing something—such as goodness, truth and beauty—by experiencing nature and culture… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Both used the typical argument—they had nothing more to expect from life. In both cases it was a question of getting them… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult for an outsider to grasp how very little value was placed on human life in camp. The camp… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“To invoke an analogy, consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to those questions we can respond only… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“The meaning of your life is to help others find the meaning of theirs.” “That was it, exactly,” Frankl said. “Those are… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share
“In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured. To be sure, people tend to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share
When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer... his unique opportunity lies in the way he bears his burden. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share
“A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhance enjoyment and satisfaction. A negative attitude intensifies pain and… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share
Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share
The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share
“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share
In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share
“I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share
“I believe that my handicap will only enhance my ability to help others. I know that without the suffering, the growth that I have… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share
“He main retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Dostoevsky said once, 'There is only one thing that I dread: not to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share
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