22 Favorite Viktor Frankl Quotes

Here's a collection of favorite quotes by Viktor Frankl. We all have the ability to choose our attitude in the midst of difficult circumstances. We can find meaning and hope even in suffering. It is our responsibility to make decisions. The following quotes can help you understand the specific meaning of life at a given moment.

"Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life."

"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."

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

"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked."

"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.'"

"Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward."

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

"The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one's freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance."

"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."

"A human being is a deciding being."

"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human."

"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."

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

"Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience."

"What is to give light must endure burning."

"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."

"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."

"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."

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

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that 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."

"Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake."

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