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
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing… — 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
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
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future...And this is his salvation in the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the… — 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
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather… — 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
When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage,… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst… — 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
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