27 Viktor E. Frankl Quotes for You to Enjoy

Viktor E. Frankl

Austrian Psychologist

Born: Mar 26, 1905

Died: Sep 2, 1997

Another Auschwitz Being Life Man Meaning

Related authors: Alfred Adler Anna Freud Helene Deutsch Otto Rank Paul Watzlawick Sigmund Freud Wilhelm Reich

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 E. Frankl

Freedom Space Power Our Response Lies Between Stimulus Choose Growth

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. Viktor E. Frankl

Attitude Man Own Everything Way Circumstances One Thing Given Taken Freedoms Any Human Choose Thing Last Set

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.' Viktor E. Frankl

Life Work Man Unfinished Human Being Will Responsibility Able Bear Bears Throw Never He Almost Toward Him Knows Becomes How His Existence Waits Any Human Being Who Why Away Conscious

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 life at a given moment. Viktor E. Frankl

Life Day Man Matters Meaning Of Life General Rather Given Day-To-Day Hour Person Meaning Meaning Of Moment Therefore Specific Differs

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, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. Viktor E. Frankl

Life Opportunity Own Everyone Out Carry Must Vocation He Implement Thus Demands Mission Concrete Repeated His Nor Replaced Task Cannot Fulfillment Unique Therein Specific Assignment

Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake. Viktor E. Frankl

Man Since Know Hiroshima Auschwitz Stake Capable

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. Viktor E. Frankl

Life Knowledge World Nothing Say Worst Would Venture Conditions Effectively Survive To Survive Meaning Help Even

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 ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Viktor E. Frankl

Life Love Wisdom Truth Time Me Man Love Is Song Thought My Life First Final Saw Poets Highest First Time Ultimate Goal Which Proclaimed Aspire Many Thinkers Set

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. Viktor E. Frankl

Prayer Man Those Entered Invented He Also Lord However His Auschwitz Lips Upright Being Who Chambers Gas Gas Chambers

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. Viktor E. Frankl

Liberty Responsibility Statue Statue Of Liberty Recommend Supplemented West West Coast Coast

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. Viktor E. Frankl

Today People Live More More People Meaning Means Ever

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 a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment. Viktor E. Frankl

Positive Achievement Man Achieve Action Desolation Honorable Way Consist Right Way Carries Only Through He Contemplation Himself His May Enduring Cannot Loving Fulfillment Express Sufferings Utter Right Image Beloved Position

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness Success You Caring Must About Same Happen Not Caring Holds

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. Viktor E. Frankl

Human Being Other Someone Oneself Something Directed Points Another Always Encounter Than Human Being Being Human Meaning Fulfill

Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others. Viktor E. Frankl

Love Patient Others Sees Step Himself His Up Human Being Transcending Capable Meaning Acting Search Humanness Core

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning. Viktor E. Frankl

Faith Trust Ultimate Meaning

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness Be Happy Happy Culture Characteristic Must Pursued American American Culture Ordered Cannot Again Reason European

When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in. Viktor E. Frankl

Me Mine Anew Write Taken Concentration Ready Auschwitz Camp Camps Survive To Survive Certainly Helped Manuscript Deep Deep Desire Publication Desire

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time. Viktor E. Frankl

Time Genius Spirit His Cannot Even Zeitgeist Resist

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