Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEverywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhat was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIn some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe 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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHappiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLA man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThere are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEach man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIt is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLOne should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThere are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL