Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl

Explore a curated collection of 36 quotes by Viktor E. Frankl. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mast — Viktor E. Frankl
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies — Viktor E. Frankl
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather — Viktor E. Frankl
Thus far we have shown that the meaning of life always changes, but that it never ceases to be. According to logotherapy — Viktor E. Frankl
As to the causation, of the feeling of meaningless, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying way, that people have enou — Viktor E. Frankl
When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure. — Viktor E. Frankl
Each of us has his own inner concentration camp... We must deal with, with forgiveness and patience-as full human beings — Viktor E. Frankl
Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice — Viktor E. Frankl
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered. — Viktor E. Frankl
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the — Viktor E. Frankl
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away thei — Viktor E. Frankl
No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repre — Viktor E. Frankl
If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capab — Viktor E. Frankl
We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond — Viktor E. Frankl
We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we ex — Viktor E. Frankl
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering. — Viktor E. Frankl
A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eight — Viktor E. Frankl
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set — Viktor E. Frankl
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances. — Viktor E. Frankl
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. — Viktor E. Frankl