568 Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.

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

The last freedom is choosing your attitude.

What is to give light must endure burning.

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to “be happy.” Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.