Viktor Emil Frankl Quotes

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

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Motivation

• Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Inspirational

• I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Life

• Everything can be taken from a man but … the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Attitude, Inspirational

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Freedom
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  What is to give light must endure burning.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Give, Endure

• 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 Emil Frankl

  Topics in Life

  Tags in People, Moment

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

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Lives

• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Change/Growth, Doubt/Uncertainty, Persistence, Character, Purpose, Meaning

• We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Ideals, Life, Suffering

  Tags in Ethics, Values, Meaning

• 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 Emil Frankl

  Topics in Expectations, Ideals, Life, Love

  Tags in Responsibility, Duty, Purpose, Meaning

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

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Meaning

• If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients’ mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one’s life.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Meaning

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

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Just

• 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.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Questioning, Mankind

• 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 Emil Frankl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lies, Choose

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

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Personality

• Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

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

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Afraid

• The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitudes.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Freedoms

• A human being is a deciding being.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Tags in Deciding, Human Being

Viktor Emil Frankl (22)

Birth:	26th March, 1905
Death:	2nd September, 1997
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Neurologist, Psychiatrist

About

Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of existential analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy".

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