Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
VIKTOR FRANKLMan’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
VIKTOR FRANKLEver more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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.
VIKTOR FRANKLThe one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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 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 FRANKLThere are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
VIKTOR FRANKLLife asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
VIKTOR FRANKLEven when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
VIKTOR FRANKLLove 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 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 FRANKLIt isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
VIKTOR FRANKLMan can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
VIKTOR FRANKLPain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
VIKTOR FRANKLLive as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
VIKTOR FRANKL