Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl

“Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.”

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

“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.”

“Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.”

“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ult...”

“In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such...”

“Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.”

“For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's ...”

“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus,...”

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an inoperable cancer - we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“Having been is the surest kind of being.”

“No one has the right to do wrong, even if wrong has been done to them.”

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

“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth-that love is the ultima...”

“Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.”

“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the val...”

“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, to choose one's own way.”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.”