“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare… — 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
“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
It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful. — 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
“In contrast to most of the existentialist schools of thought, logotherapy is in no way pessimistic; but it is realistic in that… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning? For, if not, then ultimately there is no meaning to survival; for… — 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
“As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Whenever there was an opportunity for it, one had to give them a why—an aim—for their lives, in order to strengthen them… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who… — 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
It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.' — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to… — 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
“the meaning of life always changes, but that it never ceases to be. According to logotherapy, we can discover this meaning in… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“[I]n the last resort, man should not ask "What is the meaning of my life?" but should realize that he himself is… — 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
“we must learn to see life as meaningful despite our circumstances. It emphasizes that there is an ultimate purpose to life. And… — 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
