…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. 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. FRANKLHappiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLA human being is a deciding being.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLOne can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLife is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHappiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEverywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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. FRANKLMan’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLUltimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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 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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLSunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLAt any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIf there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL