Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

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• Success is total self-acceptance ...
• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
• Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.…
• Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
• Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the…
• I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
• Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
• Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond…
• Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
• A human being is a deciding being.
• Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
• Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and…
• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of…
• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced,…
• What is to give light must endure burning.
• Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
• Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
• For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the…
• Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue…

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