Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

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• Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge.…
• The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
• When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He…
• Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened…
• If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly…
• 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.
• Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the…
• The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is…
• 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 obey,…
• View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet,…
• View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't?…
• I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot…
• What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the…
• It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
• For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a…
• Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
• Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is…
• What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he…
• Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
• The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

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