Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
VIKTOR 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.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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.
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Everything 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.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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