Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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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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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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So 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!
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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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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