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Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Total quotes: 24
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, via Amazon
Tagged: Purpose of Life
“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.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, purpose
“The boomerang comes back to the hunter who has thrown it, only if it has missed its target.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy
Tagged: strategy
“Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Happiness, Success
“The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear any more — except his God.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Fear, Faith, God
“Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, humor, Laughter
“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Mistakes, Life, chances, Courage
“Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Happiness, Pleasure
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Expectations
“Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Change
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Change, Challenges
“The more one forgets himself — by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love — the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Sacrifice, purpose
“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.’”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Judgments, judging
“According to logotherapy, this striving for to find a meaning in one's life is the primary motivational force in man.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, motivation, purpose
“We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, purpose
“Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Responsibility, actions
“The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Love
“We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, purpose, Fate
“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, 18 Quotes to Get You Through Instead of Going Under
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Moving Foward, Living
“A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhance enjoyment and satisfaction. A negative attitude intensifies pain and deepens disappointments; it undermines and diminishes pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction; it may even lead to depression or physical illness”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Negativity, Attitude, Positivity
“Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Decisions, Existence
“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Society, Standards, Blurred Lines
“I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Prison, Prison Life
“That brought thoughts of my own wife to mind. And as we stumbled on for miles, slipping on icy spots, supporting each other time and again, dragging one another up and onward, nothing was said, but we both knew: each of us was thinking of his wife. Occasionally I looked at the sky, where the stars were fading and the pink light of the morning was beginning to spread behind a dark bank of clouds. 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 was then more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Love, The Power of Love
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