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.
Viktor Frankl
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.
We cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization' of instinctual drives.
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.
In some ways, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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 last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become worse unless each of us does his best.
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.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
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.
