Viktor E. Frankl Meaning Quotations

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.

What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.

It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.