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
“If it is avoidable, the meaningful thing to do is to remove its cause, for unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic.” — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“suffering. Take the fate of the sick—especially those who are incurable. I once read a letter written by a young invalid, in… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.” — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“I only insist that meaning is possible even in spite of suffering—provided, certainly, that the suffering is unavoidable. If it were avoidable,… — 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
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
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering. — 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
“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
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
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Sigmund Freud once asserted, "Let one attempt to expose a number of the most diverse people uniformly to hunger. With the increase… — 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
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading"… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“The question was whether an ape which was being used to develop a poliomyelitis serum, and for this reason punctured again and… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice. — 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
