--- title: "27 Viktor frankl Quotes by 24 authors" description: "Browse 27 Viktor frankl quotes by 24 authors. Discover the best Viktor frankl sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/237/ryan-holiday-514_motivation_philosophy-is-simply-asking-us-to-pay-ca_2682078.jpg" --- > [“Philosophy is simply asking us to pay careful attention and to strive to be more than a pawn. As Viktor Frankl puts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ryan-holiday/philosophy-is-simply-asking-us-to-pay-careful-attention-and-to-strive/) [Ryan Holiday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ryan-holiday/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/237/ryan-holiday-514_motivation_philosophy-is-simply-asking-us-to-pay-ca_2682078.jpg) > [Viktor Frankl said the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-proctor/viktor-frankl-said-the-concentration-camp-survivalist-said-no-matter/) [Bob Proctor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-proctor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a87/bob-proctor-1579_abuse_viktor-frankl-said-the-concentration-cam_2969894.png) > [“When we are no longer able to change a situation,” psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl observed, “we are challenged to change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheryl-sandberg/when-we-are-no-longer-able-to-change-a-situation-psychiatrist-and/) [Sheryl Sandberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheryl-sandberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a19/sheryl-sandberg-439_change_when-we-are-no-longer-able-to-change-a-s_192512.png) > [“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”  – Viktor Frankl”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-doepker/when-we-are-no-longer-able-to-change-a-situation-we-are-challenged-to-2/) [Derek Doepker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-doepker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7be/derek-doepker-34244_change_when-we-are-no-longer-able-to-change-a-s_1372810.jpg) > [ They \[Nazi captors\]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he \[Viktor Frankl\] had more freedom, more internal… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/they-nazi-captors-had-more-liberty-more-options-to-choose-from-in/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65e/anonymous-1_environment_they-nazi-captors-had-more-liberty-more_2322278.jpg) > [“Psychiatrist and Auschwitz survivor, Viktor Frankl, stated, "...man is by no means merely a product of heredity and environment. There is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-a-kemp/psychiatrist-and-auschwitz-survivor-viktor-frankl-stated-man-is-by-no/) [Alice A. Kemp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-a-kemp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad8/alice-a-kemp-217828_atlantis_psychiatrist-and-auschwitz-survivor-vikt_1002096.jpg) > [“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/man-does-not-simply-exist-but-always-decides-what-his-existence-will/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/anonymous-1_exist_man-does-not-simply-exist-but-always-dec_467116.jpg) > [“The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. —VIKTOR FRANKL, Auschwitz survivor and founder of Logotherapy, Man’s Search for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-ferriss/the-existential-vacuum-manifests-itself-mainly-in-a-state-of-boredom-2/) [Timothy Ferriss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-ferriss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/174/timothy-ferriss-973_boredom_the-existential-vacuum-manifests-itself_2302306.jpg) > [Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi/half-a-century-ago-the-austrian-psychiatrist-viktor-frankl-wrote-that/) [Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/511/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-1255_business_half-a-century-ago-the-austrian-psychiat_2630169.jpg) > [Viktor Frankl's timeless formula for survival. One of the classic psychiatric texts of our time, Man's Search for Meaning is a meditation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-j-williams/viktor-frankl-s-timeless-formula-for-survival-one-of-the-classic/) [Patricia J. Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-j-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be8/patricia-j-williams-34748_challenges_viktor-frankl-s-timeless-formula-for-sur_1003707.jpg) > [“The great psychologist Viktor Frankl, survivor of three concentration camps, found presumptuousness in the age-old question: “What is the meaning of life?”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ryan-holiday/the-great-psychologist-viktor-frankl-survivor-of-three-concentration/) [Ryan Holiday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ryan-holiday/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f83/ryan-holiday-514_concentration-camp_the-great-psychologist-viktor-frankl-sur_1439294.jpg) > [“Messages “For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-tracy/messages-for-success-like-happiness-cannot-be-pursued-it-must-ensue/) [Brian Tracy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-tracy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/406/brian-tracy-216_happiness_messages-for-success-like-happiness-cann_2722570.jpg) > [“Most-gifted or recommended books? Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl The Fourth Turning by William Strauss (Also, Generations by William Strauss,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-ferriss/most-gifted-or-recommended-books-man-s-search-for-meaning-by-viktor/) [Timothy Ferriss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-ferriss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/013/timothy-ferriss-973_books_most-gifted-or-recommended-books-man-s-s_2859160.jpg) > [“I went into Grace’s den and picked up a book I’d bought from Amazon, Man’s Search for Meaning. It had been written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-pratt/i-went-into-grace-s-den-and-picked-up-a-book-i-d-bought-from-amazon/) [Scott Pratt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-pratt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e13/scott-pratt-25733_books_i-went-into-grace-s-den-and-picked-up-a_2038870.jpg) > [“According to Viktor Frankl, a person finds identity only to the extent that “he commits himself to something beyond himself, to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/according-to-viktor-frankl-a-person-finds-identity-only-to-the-extent/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/388/brennan-manning-959_identity_according-to-viktor-frankl-a-person-find_2244039.jpg) > [“One day, naked and alone in a small room, he began to become aware of what he later called “the last of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-r-covey/one-day-naked-and-alone-in-a-small-room-he-began-to-become-aware-of/) [Stephen R. Covey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-r-covey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d42/stephen-r-covey-1501_freedom_one-day-naked-and-alone-in-a-small-room_2342784.jpg) > [“Set aside a half hour to picture yourself at age ninety and to put yourself in the mind of ninety-year-old you. What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-h-pink/set-aside-a-half-hour-to-picture-yourself-at-age-ninety-and-to-put/) [Daniel H. Pink](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-h-pink/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea1/daniel-h-pink-1532_first-time_set-aside-a-half-hour-to-picture-yoursel_2437404.jpg) > [“Someone sent me a letter that had one of the best quotes I've ever read. It said "What is to give light…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-echols/someone-sent-me-a-letter-that-had-one-of-the-best-quotes-i-ve-ever/) [Damien Echols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-echols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fa/damien-echols-9457_pain_someone-sent-me-a-letter-that-had-one-of_893906.jpg) > [“In this version, scholars like Otto Rank, Viktor Frankl, and Rollo May—not to mention philosophically oriented social activists like Jean-Paul Sartre and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eli-j-finkel/in-this-version-scholars-like-otto-rank-viktor-frankl-and-rollo-may/) [Eli J. Finkel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eli-j-finkel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12d/eli-j-finkel-78085_life_in-this-version-scholars-like-otto-rank_858194.jpg) > [“Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/viktor-e-frankl/fundamentally-therefore-any-man-can-even-under-such-circumstances/) [Viktor E. Frankl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/viktor-e-frankl/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bf/viktor-e-frankl-668_concentration-camp_fundamentally-therefore-any-man-can-even_508392.jpg) > [“The book was called Man’s Search for Meaning by the Jewish author Viktor Frankl. The book had been a real-life story about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-hamre/the-book-was-called-man-s-search-for-meaning-by-the-jewish-author/) [Erik Hamre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-hamre/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f1/erik-hamre-44256_books_the-book-was-called-man-s-search-for-mea_3207506.jpg) > [Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-greitens/viktor-frankl-a-holocaust-survivor-and-the-author-of-man-s-search-for/) [Eric Greitens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-greitens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/eric-greitens-3611_and-love_viktor-frankl-a-holocaust-survivor-and-t_2456130.png) > [“One of the credos of my life is taken from Viktor Frankl, a Jewish survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-prager/one-of-the-credos-of-my-life-is-taken-from-viktor-frankl-a-jewish/) [Dennis Prager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-prager/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c8/dennis-prager-631_black-and-white_one-of-the-credos-of-my-life-is-taken-fr_992155.jpg) > [“Viktor Frankl used the metaphor of geometric dimensions to illustrate challenges in perception and understanding. Just as a three-dimensional cylinder projected onto…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-patryas/viktor-frankl-used-the-metaphor-of-geometric-dimensions-to-illustrate/) [Laura Patryas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-patryas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/laura-patryas-100063_carl-jung_viktor-frankl-used-the-metaphor-of-geome_1563632.jpg) > [“Who are we to say getting incested or abused or violated or any of those things can’t have their positive aspects in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/who-are-we-to-say-getting-incested-or-abused-or-violated-or-any-of/) [David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-foster-wallace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab6/david-foster-wallace-161_dark-side_who-are-we-to-say-getting-incested-or-ab_2380605.jpg) > [I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-zerban/i-think-republicans-need-to-have-their-staffers-reading-less-ayn-rand/) [Rob Zerban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-zerban/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/073/rob-zerban-65458_democracy_i-think-republicans-need-to-have-their-s_1561974.jpg) > [“Our perspective toward life is our final and ultimate freedom. - Viktor Frankl quoted by Desmond Tutu”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama-xiv/our-perspective-toward-life-is-our-final-and-ultimate-freedom-viktor/) [Dalai Lama XIV](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama-xiv/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8df/dalai-lama-xiv-1700_freedom_our-perspective-toward-life-is-our-final_2487281.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/viktor-frankl/#itemlist", "name": "Viktor frankl Quotes", "numberOfItems": 27, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Philosophy is simply asking us to pay careful attention and to strive to be more than a pawn. 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It was probably the first academic, intellectual approach to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, although he hadn’t used that terminology.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Scott Pratt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-pratt/i-went-into-grace-s-den-and-picked-up-a-book-i-d-bought-from-amazon/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e13/scott-pratt-25733_books_i-went-into-grace-s-den-and-picked-up-a_2038870.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e13/scott-pratt-25733_books_i-went-into-grace-s-den-and-picked-up-a_2038870.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e13/scott-pratt-25733_books_i-went-into-grace-s-den-and-picked-up-a_2038870.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I went into Grace’s den and picked up a book I’d bought from Amazon, Man’s Search for Meaning. 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It said \"What is to give light must endure burning.\" It's by a writer named Viktor Frankl. I've been turning that quote over and over in my head. The truth of it is absolutely awe-inspiring. In the end, I believe it's why we all suffer. It's the meaning we all look for behind the tragedies in our lives. The pain deepens us, burns away our impurities and petty selfishness. It makes us capable of empathy and sympathy. It makes us capable of love. The pain is the fire that allows us to rise from the ashes of what we were, and more fully realize what we can become. 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The book had been a…” — Erik Hamre", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 22, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work, though their relationships, and by how they choose to meet unavoidable suffering. Every life brings hardship and trial, and every life also offers deep possibilities for meaningful work and love... I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eric Greitens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-greitens/viktor-frankl-a-holocaust-survivor-and-the-author-of-man-s-search-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/eric-greitens-3611_and-love_viktor-frankl-a-holocaust-survivor-and-t_2456130.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/eric-greitens-3611_and-love_viktor-frankl-a-holocaust-survivor-and-t_2456130.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/eric-greitens-3611_and-love_viktor-frankl-a-holocaust-survivor-and-t_2456130.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings…” — Eric Greitens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 23, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“One of the credos of my life is taken from Viktor Frankl, a Jewish survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who was a psychiatrist and author. In his highly influential book, Man’s Search for Meaning, he related that after the war someone asked him if he ‘hated the German race.’ He responded that he did not because in his view, ‘There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.’ That is how I divide the world. Not between Muslim and non-Muslim, black and white, or American and non-American, but between the decent and indecent. The issues I raise about Islam are not about the decency of Muslims, but about whether Islam in its traditional Islamist configuration is more or less likely than the American value system to produce good societies.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dennis Prager" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-prager/one-of-the-credos-of-my-life-is-taken-from-viktor-frankl-a-jewish/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c8/dennis-prager-631_black-and-white_one-of-the-credos-of-my-life-is-taken-fr_992155.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c8/dennis-prager-631_black-and-white_one-of-the-credos-of-my-life-is-taken-fr_992155.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c8/dennis-prager-631_black-and-white_one-of-the-credos-of-my-life-is-taken-fr_992155.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One of the credos of my life is taken from Viktor Frankl, a Jewish survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who…” — Dennis Prager", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 24, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Viktor Frankl used the metaphor of geometric dimensions to illustrate challenges in perception and understanding. Just as a three-dimensional cylinder projected onto a two-dimensional plane can appear as different shapes depending on the angle, our perspectives are limited by the \"conceptual dimensions\" we inhabit. Focusing on one framework or worldview casts blind spots on issues outside its purview. Like the cylinder, reality contains more complexity than any single viewpoint can capture. What appears contradictory from a limited vantage point may be reconciled from a broader perspective. Self has this broad perspective. Frankl suggested cultivating multi-dimensional awareness (Self's awareness) to overcome biases and grasp truth more wholly. Though we cannot transcend our situatedness (parts and ego), we can seek to understand the diverse dimensions that comprise the fullness of reality. Awareness of our frames allows us to interpret experiences with more wisdom and nuance.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Laura Patryas" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-patryas/viktor-frankl-used-the-metaphor-of-geometric-dimensions-to-illustrate/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/laura-patryas-100063_carl-jung_viktor-frankl-used-the-metaphor-of-geome_1563632.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/laura-patryas-100063_carl-jung_viktor-frankl-used-the-metaphor-of-geome_1563632.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/laura-patryas-100063_carl-jung_viktor-frankl-used-the-metaphor-of-geome_1563632.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Viktor Frankl used the metaphor of geometric dimensions to illustrate challenges in perception and…” — Laura Patryas", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 25, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Who are we to say getting incested or abused or violated or any of those things can’t have their positive aspects in the long run? … You have to be careful of taking a knee-jerk attitude. Having a knee-jerk attitude to anything is a mistake, especially in the case of women, where it adds up to this very limited and condescending thing of saying they’re fragile, breakable things that can be destroyed easily. Everybody gets hurt and violated and broken sometimes. Why are women so special? Not that anybody ought to be raped or abused, nobody’s saying that, but that’s what is going on. What about afterwards? All I’m saying is there are certain cases where it can enlarge you or make you more of a complete human being, like Viktor Frankl. Think about the Holocaust. Was the Holocaust a good thing? No way. Does anybody think it was good that it happened? No, of course not. But did you read Viktor Frankl? Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning? It’s a great, great book, but it comes out of his experience. It’s about his experience in the human dark side. Now think about it, if there was no Holocaust, there’d be no Man’s Search for Meaning… . Think about it. Think about being degraded and brought within an inch of your life, for example. No one’s gonna say the sick bastards who did it shouldn’t be put in jail, but let’s put two things into perspective here. One is, afterwards she knows something about herself that she never knew before. What she knows is that the most totally terrible terrifying thing that she could ever have imagined happening to her has now happened, and she survived. She’s still here, and now she knows something. I mean she really, really knows. Look, totally terrible things happen… . Existence in life breaks people in all kinds of awful fucking ways all the time, trust me I know. I’ve been there. And this is the big difference, you and me here, cause this isn’t about politics or feminism or whatever, for you this is just ideas, you’ve never been there. I’m not saying nothing bad has ever happened to you, you’re not bad looking, I’m sure there’s been some sort of degradation or whatever come your way in life, but I’m talking Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning type violation and terror and suffering here. The real dark side. I can tell from just looking at you, you never. You wouldn’t even wear what you’re wearing, trust me. What if I told you it was my own sister that was raped? What if I told you a little story about a sixteen-year-old girl who went to the wrong party with the wrong guy and four of his buddies that ended up doing to her just about everything four guys could do to you in terms of violation? But if you could ask her if she could go into her head and forget it or like erase the tape of it happening in her memory, what do you think she’d say? Are you so sure what she’d say? What if she said that even after that totally negative as what happened was, at least now she understood it was possible. People can. Can see you as a thing. That people can see you as a thing, do you know what that means? Because if you really can see someone as a thing you can do anything to him. What would it be like to be able to be like that? You see, you think you can imagine it but you can’t. But she can. And now she knows something. I mean she really, really knows. This is what you wanted to hear, you wanted to hear about four drunk guys who knee-jerk you in the balls and make you bend over that you didn’t even know, that you never saw before, that you never did anything to, that don’t even know your name, they don’t even know your name to find out you have to choose to have a fucking name, you have no fucking idea, and what if I said that happened to ME? Would that make a difference?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Foster Wallace" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/who-are-we-to-say-getting-incested-or-abused-or-violated-or-any-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab6/david-foster-wallace-161_dark-side_who-are-we-to-say-getting-incested-or-ab_2380605.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab6/david-foster-wallace-161_dark-side_who-are-we-to-say-getting-incested-or-ab_2380605.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab6/david-foster-wallace-161_dark-side_who-are-we-to-say-getting-incested-or-ab_2380605.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Who are we to say getting incested or abused or violated or any of those things can’t have their positive…” — David Foster Wallace", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 26, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rob Zerban" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-zerban/i-think-republicans-need-to-have-their-staffers-reading-less-ayn-rand/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/073/rob-zerban-65458_democracy_i-think-republicans-need-to-have-their-s_1561974.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/073/rob-zerban-65458_democracy_i-think-republicans-need-to-have-their-s_1561974.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/073/rob-zerban-65458_democracy_i-think-republicans-need-to-have-their-s_1561974.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor…” — Rob Zerban", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 27, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Our perspective toward life is our final and ultimate freedom. - Viktor Frankl quoted by Desmond Tutu”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dalai Lama XIV" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama-xiv/our-perspective-toward-life-is-our-final-and-ultimate-freedom-viktor/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8df/dalai-lama-xiv-1700_freedom_our-perspective-toward-life-is-our-final_2487281.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8df/dalai-lama-xiv-1700_freedom_our-perspective-toward-life-is-our-final_2487281.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8df/dalai-lama-xiv-1700_freedom_our-perspective-toward-life-is-our-final_2487281.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Our perspective toward life is our final and ultimate freedom. - Viktor Frankl quoted by Desmond Tutu” — Dalai Lama XIV", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/viktor-frankl/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/viktor-frankl/", "name": "Viktor frankl Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/viktor-frankl/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/237/ryan-holiday-514_motivation_philosophy-is-simply-asking-us-to-pay-ca_2682078.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 27 Viktor frankl quotes by 24 authors. 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