More Quotes by Viktor Frankl
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
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.
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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.
The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.
This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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.
