Viktor Frankl

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

Viktor Frankl

Most important, he realized that, no matter what happened, he retained the freedom to choose how to respond to his suffering.

Viktor Frankl

No man and no destiny can be compared with any other man or any other destiny. No situation repeats itself, and each situation calls for a different response.

Viktor Frankl

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

Viktor Frankl

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.

Viktor Frankl

The choices humans make should be active rather than passive.

Viktor Frankl

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Viktor Frankl

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.

Viktor Frankl

They died less from lack of food or medicine than from lack of hope, lack of something to live for.

Viktor Frankl

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 Frankl