Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

The salvation of man is through love and in love

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory

أن ماهو متوقع من الحياة ليس في واقع الامر هو موضع الاهمية ، بل أن ما يعنينا هو ما الذي تتوق�

Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn life’s negative aspects into something positive or constructive. In other words, what matters is to make the best of any given situation.

Man is able to snatch everything except one thing, the last of human freedoms: the choice of an attitude under any given set of circumstances to determine his own path.

أن كل شيء يمكن أن يؤخذ من الإنسان عدا شيئًا واحدًا : وهذا الشيء الواحد هو آخر شيء من الحريا%D

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capable of becoming.

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.

The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.