Viktor Frankl

Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

Viktor Frankl

The more one forgets himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

Viktor Frankl

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

Viktor Frankl

Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little.

Viktor Frankl

View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.

Viktor Frankl

With the end of uncertainty there came the uncertainty of the end.

Viktor Frankl

A human being is a deciding being.

Viktor Frankl

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes – within the limits of endowment and environment – he has made out of himself.

Viktor Frankl

A life of short duration…could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

Viktor Frankl

A man can get used to anything, but do not ask us how.

Viktor Frankl