568 Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl

Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning? For, if not, then ultimately there is no meaning to survival; for a life whose meaning depends upon such a happenstance – as whether one escapes or not – ultimately would not be worth living at all.

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.

The prisoner who had lost faith in the future – his future – was doomed. With his loss of belief in the future, he also lost his spiritual hold; he let himself decline and became subject to mental and physical decay.

Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed.

Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.

The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing.

There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.