Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

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• Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each…
• The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
• We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot…
• The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
• I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the…
• Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.
• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge…
• Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
• Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
• Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.
• At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
• Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
• . . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was…
• There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral…
• You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
• Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
• Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it…
• We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.
• It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'
• As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable,

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