Viktor Frankl

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

Viktor Frankl

You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!

Viktor Frankl

A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering has no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and more intensely.

Viktor Frankl

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

Viktor Frankl

An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords him the opportunity to obtain fulfillment in experiencing beauty, art, or nature.

Viktor Frankl

As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.

Viktor Frankl

At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.

Viktor Frankl

But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

Viktor Frankl

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Viktor Frankl

Even if you don’t expect anything from life, doesn’t life expect something from you?

Viktor Frankl