Viktor E. Frankl

One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Apart from the moral deformity resulting from the sudden release of mental pressure, there were two other fundamental experiences which threatened to…

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“To put it figuratively, the role played by a logotherapist is rather that of an eye specialist than of a painter. A…

— Viktor E. Frankl

I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“a man’s suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber,…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“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

“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

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

“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

We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions…

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

“the perception of meaning, as I see it, more specifically boils down to becoming aware of a possibility against the background of…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to those questions we can respond only…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“He main retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Dostoevsky said once, 'There is only one thing that I dread:…

— Viktor E. Frankl

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“To be sure, the term, will to power, was coined by Nietzsche rather than Adler, and the term, will to pleasure—standing for…

— Viktor E. Frankl

The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more…

— Viktor E. Frankl

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is…

— Viktor E. Frankl

I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's…

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“the priority stays with creatively changing the situation that causes us to suffer. But the superiority goes to the “know-how to suffer,”…

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the…

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

“Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size'…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather…

— Viktor E. Frankl

This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find…

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

“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

“Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.…

— Viktor E. Frankl