The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
VIKTOR FRANKLBetween 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.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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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.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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