Viktor Frankl Quotes



Best 16 Other Quotes by Viktor Frankl

“A human being is a deciding being.”

“A life of short duration could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.”

“As to the causation of the feeling of meaninglessness, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying vein, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.”

“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.”

“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.”

“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”

“The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.”

“The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life.”

“The last of human freedoms—the ability to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.”

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”

“To suffer unnecessarily is mas*chistic rather than heroic.”

“What is to give light must endure burning.”

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.”

“When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.”

“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

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