Quotes by Viktor Frankl

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become worse unless each of us does his best.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed.

Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

The 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.

Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

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.

We cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose.

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.

What is to give light must endure burning.

In some ways, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

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.

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.

Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.

Even in the darkest moments, life has meaning.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance.

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 dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Cuộc sống không đặt ra câu hỏi cho chúng ta, mà chúng ta phải đặt ra câu hỏi cho cuộc sống.

Cuộc sống không có ý nghĩa; cuộc sống có ý nghĩa bằng cách chúng ta sống nó.

Cuộc sống không có ý nghĩa nếu không có ý nghĩa được chế ngự từ nó.

Người sống có lý do sẽ chịu được mọi cách thức của cuộc sống.

Sự tồn tại của chúng ta không nằm ở những gì chúng ta có, mà ở những gì chúng ta có thể mang lại cho người khác.

Người có lý tưởng sống không vì chết, mà vì ý nghĩa cuộc sống.