The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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