More Quotes by Viktor Frankl
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. 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 individual.
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. 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 through love and in love.
The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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 our freedom.
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 circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
