568 Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl

Despair is suffering without meaning.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

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

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.

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

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.

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