568 Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl

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

God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

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

But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!

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