More Quotes by Viktor Frankl
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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.
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
