The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Each 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.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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But 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.
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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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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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There 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.
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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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