More Quotes by Viktor Frankl
The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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.
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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.
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
