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 FRANKLSuccess, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
-
-
When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
Success is total self-acceptance.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
VIKTOR FRANKL






