Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. -Viktor E. Frankl Time
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. -Viktor E. Frankl Brainy
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
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances. -Viktor E. Frankl Attitude
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
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 Space
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
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. -Viktor E. Frankl Men
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 Truth
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. -Viktor E. Frankl Success
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. -Viktor E. Frankl Life
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 Wisdom
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete. -Viktor E. Frankl Death
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
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete. -Viktor E. Frankl Life
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 Work
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
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 Knowledge
