568 Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl

Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.

Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'

Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.

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.

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

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.

Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.