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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself,… — 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
“man is not he who poses the question, What is the meaning of life? but he who is asked this question, for… — 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 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
“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
“[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
“Anything outside the barbed wire became remote - out of reach and, in a way, unreal. The events and the people outside,… — 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
“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
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
One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through… — 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
“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
View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“After all, “saying yes to life in spite of everything,” to use the phrase in which the title of a German book… — 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
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.… — 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
“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
“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
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“by a prominent psychologist, Dr. Gordon Allport, and the Foreword to this new edition is written by a clergyman. We have come… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“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
There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Ultimate meaning necessarily exceeds and surpasses the finite intellectual capacities of man... What is demanded of man is not, as some existential… — 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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