Viktor Frankl

Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.

Viktor Frankl

What is to give light must endure burning.

Viktor Frankl

When we are no longer able to change a situation – just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer – we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor Frankl

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Viktor Frankl

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 Frankl

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

Viktor Frankl

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 Frankl

As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy.

Viktor Frankl

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

Viktor Frankl

At such a moment it is not the physical pain which hurts the most, it is the mental agony caused by injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.

Viktor Frankl