When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
VIKTOR FRANKLIf there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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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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Man 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.
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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