Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
VIKTOR FRANKLMan’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
VIKTOR FRANKLGod is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
VIKTOR FRANKLEverything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
VIKTOR FRANKLThe quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
VIKTOR FRANKLNothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
VIKTOR FRANKLIt is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
VIKTOR FRANKLDecisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
VIKTOR FRANKLMan 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.
VIKTOR FRANKLSpiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
VIKTOR FRANKLYou don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
VIKTOR FRANKLIn some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
VIKTOR FRANKLLife asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
VIKTOR FRANKLWhat is to give light must endure burning.
VIKTOR FRANKLA man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
VIKTOR FRANKLMan’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
VIKTOR FRANKLThe point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
VIKTOR FRANKL