The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
Viktor Frankl
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Viktor Frankl
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Viktor Frankl
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become worse unless each of us does his best.
Viktor Frankl
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
Viktor Frankl
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
Viktor Frankl
Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
Viktor Frankl
Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
Viktor Frankl
We cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose.
Viktor Frankl
Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization' of instinctual drives.
Viktor Frankl
What is to give light must endure burning.
Viktor Frankl