59 result(s) for Viktor E. Frankl Quotes.
"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."
"If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering."
"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."
"The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is."
"There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life."
"Each man is questioned by life and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life."
"Suffering ceases to be suffering in some way at the moment it finds a meaning."
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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."
"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality."
"The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself."
"Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization' of instinctual drives."
"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."
"Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude."
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
"The salvation of man is through love and in love."
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
"Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness."
"For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself."
"A human being is a deciding being."
"In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning."
"When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task."
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"What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence."
"The true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system."
"Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now."
"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.'"
"Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself."
"Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man - his courage and hope, or lack of them - and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect."
"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself."
"Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself—be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is."
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
"In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice."
"For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best."
"If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete."
"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."
"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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"Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself."
"Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation."
"An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior."
"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task."
"There are things in life that can never be completely understood, and I'm okay with that."
"The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
"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."
"What is to give light must endure burning."
"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."
"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."
"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!"
"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it."
"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked."
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human."
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
"What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you."
"Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life."
"The last of human freedoms - the ability to choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances."
"In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning."
"Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself."
"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."
"The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one's freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance."
"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."
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