Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his i — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one. — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given s — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking abo — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a she — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that the tru — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rathe — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiri — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to ' — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of. — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the nega — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life. — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes imp — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental d — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
I consider it a dangerous misconception of mental hygiene to assume that what man needs in the first place is equilibriu — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning