Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLA human being is a deciding being.
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. 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. FRANKLIn some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLBut my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLOnce an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe salvation of man is through love and in love.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLBut there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHuman kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNo one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhat you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL…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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLSleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL