Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
VIKTOR FRANKLEver more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
VIKTOR FRANKLLife is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
VIKTOR FRANKLPain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
VIKTOR FRANKLEveryone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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 FRANKLEach of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
VIKTOR FRANKLSo live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
VIKTOR FRANKLIt is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
VIKTOR FRANKLSpiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
VIKTOR FRANKLIn some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
VIKTOR FRANKLThere 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 FRANKLAn abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
VIKTOR FRANKLThe point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
VIKTOR FRANKLA human being is a deciding being.
VIKTOR FRANKLBeing 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.
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 FRANKL