Viktor E Frankl Quotes

Biography: Viktor E. Frankl is best known for his book "Man's Search for Meaning.... more Biography: Viktor E. Frankl is best known for his book "Man's Search for Meaning." He was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor. Frankl founded logotherapy, a form of existential analysis, and his work emphasizes the human drive to find meaning in life even amidst suffering. less

"A human being is a deciding being""Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation""What is to give light must endure burning""Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose""In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice""So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now""When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure""An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior""The salvation of man is through love and in love""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""Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'""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""When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves"

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