“namely, the feeling of the total and ultimate meaninglessness of their lives. They lack the awareness of a meaning worth living for.… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate… — 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
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples… — 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
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
“Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That… — 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
“An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes -… — 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
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and… — 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
“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
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
“Long ago we had passed the stage of asking what was the meaning of life, a naïve query which understands life as… — 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
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Victor Frankl: By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“The meaning of your life is to help others find the meaning of theirs.” “That” — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
